"I don't design nice buildings," said the architect Zaha Hadid, who died suddenly today at the age of 65. "I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality." ...

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The building was designed by the practice of the renowned late British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. Born in Baghdad, Dame Zaha studied maths at the American University of Beirut - where she later ...