How Hadid's firm plans to move on
Building on the legacy of the "starchitect", Zaha Hadid Architects is showing it can go forward and have its own future without her.
London
WHITE flowers fill the design gallery, with commemorative portraits placed amid undulating furniture of burnished polyurethane and marble. A condolence book rests on a stand, a construction of memories. In the main studios, nearly 400 employees labour away, deadlines pressing.
The people work quietly, still in shock. The woman who brought them here, the remarkable architect Zaha Hadid, born in Baghdad and famous worldwide, died suddenly on March 31 in Miami at the age of 65.
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