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norm, breaking rules and employing innovative materials everywhere. Her vision brought her to update cities and create new places: cultural centers, museums, opera houses, sports centers, stations, towers and buildings, each one a gift for posterity. One of her first internationally acclaimed projects was in 1993 – the Vitra Fire Station at Weil am Rhein. It would be followed by an exhaustive list of successes: The Richard and Lois Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (Cincinnati, Ohio 2003), the Guangzhou Opera House (2011), Hadid's first major project in China, the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaigian (2012) and the London Aquatics Center for the 2012 Olympics.
World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2008) and the 2010 Time 100 list included her amongst the most influential thinkers of the year.
Zaha Hadid lent her unique style to projects in Italy as well, including Rome’s MAXXI Museum (2009) and the Hadid Tower and Residence for Citylife in Milan, opening just in time for the World’s Fair, Expo2015.
Zaha also strived to inspire students, teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Architecture, and the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.
For Zaha Hadid, the term “Archistar” certainly fits the bill: She was listed at No. 69 on Forbes'
Her legacy, in her words, “I still believe in the impossible.”
The single and childless Hadid was completely devoted to her art, saying, “I mean really you have to go at it (architecture) full time. You can't afford to dip in and out." The indefatigable Hadid was able to express and apply her personal style not only as an architect but also as a designer, from innovative furniture to original jewellery and fashion right up to her stunning 128m superyacht!
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