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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Zaha Hadid's 'Controlled Explosions' August 22, 2002. By Michael O'Sullivan. THE TITLE of the latest exhibition at the National Building Museum is well chosen.

Correction appended May 13, 2009 A fire has charred part of an opera house designed by Zaha Hadid currently under construction in Guangzhou, China. It is the second major building blaze in the country ...

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.

10 Questions with Zaha Hadid; 10 Questions with Zaha Hadid. 3 minute read. ... Is that a particularly sweet project since there was such a fight over your 1994 design for the Cardiff Bay Opera House?

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 ...

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 ...