Architectural Spotlight: Zaha Hadid

 I served this woman while I was working for a catering company throughout university.

I served her a diet coke with my mouth wide open. She had to ask me twice.

How could I not stare at her?
 It was Zaha Hadid standing in front of me, in all her gloriousness,

 tapping me on the shoulder while demanding for her drink; and quite rudely if you ask me. 

But it was Zaha, so her demands were met quite swiftly without any complaints.

This woman whose work ethic baffles me, but yet people queue to work at a desk in the firm,
literally. Should you fall short of a work space on the start of your day, you head back home
 and work from there. The same woman who you would spend time queuing up for just to be a
 part of her team, a part of her architectural world, a part of her process that allows her to be
heard, and most definitely seen, in a completely male dominant career and in fact the first
 woman to win the Pritzker prize for Architecture in its twenty six year history. She has done
 this with grace, and with no care in the world of what people think. And in saying this,
 her architecture speaks for itself. Edgy but fluid. Soft but sophisticatedly elaborate.
 Feminine yet powerful and dominant.

So no. No complaints from the the little wide-mouthed design student standing in
front of personally one of the most successful woman architects in this century.

Click below for photos of some of my favourite projects.

 E.ON Energy Research Centre

Aachen, Germany 2006-TBC

 Neil Barrett Flagship Store, 

Tokyo, Japan 2008

JS Bach Chamber Music Hall

Manchester, United Kingdom, 2009