In 1994, a still relatively unknown Zaha Hadid won a competition to design the new opera house in Cardiff, Wales. But despite coming in first, her design was rejected by locals.

An award-winning businesswoman has hit out at "resistance and prejudice" that she claims stopped the construction of the ill-fated Cardiff Bay Opera House. Zaha Hadid, who designed the Aquatics ...

Architect Dame Zaha Hadid, known for designs such as the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympic Games, ... Hadid successfully won a competition to build the Cardiff Bay Opera House in 1994.

While hurling insults at the Scottish Parliament has evolved into a national sport, the Wales Millennium Centre has suffered an even greater ignominy: complete indifference.Both projects were born out ...

Zaha Hadid, First Woman To Win Pritzker Prize, ... Hadid envisioned an angular auditorium for the Cardiff Bay Opera House. That, too, won the design competition for the project but was never built.

Zaha Hadid, the celebrated Iraqi-born British architect whose dramatic, ... and a design for the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales that faced resistance from some local politicians. ...

The Guangzhou Opera House used the designs for the Cardiff Bay Opera House. Dame Zaha has become one of the most influential architects in the world, designing buildings such as the MAXXI museum ...

1 of 3 — Guangzhou Opera House in Guangzhou, China, was designed by Zaha Hadid, a Pritzker-winning architect. Hadid died at 65. 2 of 3 — A view of the Bergisel Ski Jump during the 2012 Winter ...

Hadid was first famous for spectacular designs that were never built — but later proved her ideas worked in the real world, not just on paper. She was the first woman to win the Pritzker prize.