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"They are long, curvaceous and low, the exact opposite of the phallic skyscrapers beloved of so many male architects ... Ms Hadid's buildings are people-friendly, with long, sweeping corridors to stroll along. They swirl and flow, like the calligraphy that scrolls across the interiors of mosques in the Middle East, ms Hadid's homeland." (Lesley Downer, wsj_00.08.11)
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"A powerful, charismatic woman of 49 who struts around in flowing Issey Miyake pleats and spiky high heels, Ms Hadid grew up in Baghdad, the daughter of the leader of the Iraqi Democratic Party." (Lesley Downer, wsj_00.08.11)
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"The gravest disaster was the Cardiff Bay Opera House ... She won three competitions for the project in 1994; but the design proved too futuristic for the conservative Welsh public. Perhaps the fact that she was Arab and a woman came into equation. One counselor was quoted as saying that he was afraid that the project would draw down a Rushdie-like fatwa on Cardiff." (Lesley Downer, wsj_00.08.11)
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"None of these projects are in Britain. ... 'No matter how much development there has been, London is still virgin territory,' she says. 'There are no projects that radically deal with the new.'" (Lesley Downer, wsj_00.08.11)
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