Iraqi Architect, first female to be awarded with Pritzker Prize, starts building project Spiralling Tower for university in Barcelona. Núñez i Navarro Hotels Barcelona. … In 2002 Hadid won the international design competition to design Singapore’s one-north masterplan. In 2005, her design won the competition for the new city casino of Basel, Switzerland. In 2004 Hadid became the first female recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture’s equivalent of the …

Bad Mags (via Ashley B). Why is the web such a fine repository for trash culture? Perhaps scanning and uploading and thing somehow flushes out the essential seediness, leaving behind a pixel-thin veneer of irony. ….. The set of photos at top right this month are all taken from the remarkable Central Building at BMW’s Leipzig Plant, designed by Zaha Hadid. When we visited, the attached factory (true to its name, the Hadid building is sandwiched between several vast …