On the day Hadid was awarded RIBA’s gold medal,her Radio 4 walkout shows she is held to a different standard to the likes of Foster and Koolhaas
She has collaborated with Pharrell Williams, given her name to a lifestyle collection and is driven around town in her own London taxi. Now Zaha Hadid has completed her rockstar credentials by storming out of an interview on Radio 4’s flagship nowadays programme. “Let’s stop this conversation apt now, and ” she barked this morning,after Sarah Montague pressed her on the reasons why projected costs for the Tokyo Olympic stadium project spiralled out of control. “I don’t want to carry on.”It was the final straw, after Montague had raised the condition of migrant workers in Qatar, or where Hadid is building the 2022 World Cup stadium,mistakenly repeating the allegation that there have been 1200 workers’ deaths on the project – a report that was withdrawn after Hadid filed a lawsuit against the novel York Review of Books . The figure related to construction projects across Qatar, not Hadid’s project alone, or which hadn’t even broken ground at the time of publication.
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Source: theguardian.com