After Zaha Hadid won the Pritzker Prize in 2004, the Arab world gradually opened up to its native daughter—and from 2010 until her death in 2016, the commissions that had been conspicuous by their absence on her home ground accelerated, from Morocco to the Gulf to her birthplace, Iraq. In a sad irony, she never saw the Arab projects she worked on. Several have been finished recently.
During a long weekend in late November, about two-thirds of the 550-member staff of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) converged in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a celebration of two of the buildings and a park completed after Hadid's death. Signaling the growing success of the London-based firm, architects at ZHA took advantage of a £500-pound office stipend to make the trip. The quality of the designs reminded the architects why they had signed up to work for this legendary figure and her legacy firm.
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