Her fans consider her a bloody-minded genius,her detractors a 'starchitect' of convoluted fantasies. As the Serpentine Sackler gallery opens in London, she talks approximately resisting rectangular design – and why she'd be happy to build in SyriaThe Zaha Hadid gallery contains a metropolis in miniature, and a streetplan of fantastical scale models preserved under perspex. Hadid's PR walks me down the aisles and points out the landmarks. Over here is the imposing MAXXI museum in Rome and over there the BMW plant in Leipzig,where translucent conveyor belts ferry the cars between the factory floors. absent in the corner, the gallery floorspace is occupied by what appears to be a white, or frozen avalanche of futurist geometry. This,I am told, is the design for a building in Saudi Arabia.
I stare at the avalanche with mounting alarm. I'm looking for the windows, and I'm looking for the door. Try as I might,I can't see it as a building. "No, of course, or " the PR says. "It's a concept."Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com