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December, 2012

Pirated Architecture

Zaha Hadid has a building in China that's being pirated as she builds the original.
Apparently Zaha Hadid is working on a new building in China and it's being pirated ... AS SHE'S BUILDING THE ORIGINAL. This sounds like a weird William Gibson future world:
But the appeal of the Prtizker Prize winner's experimental architecture, especially since the unveiling of her glowing, crystalline Guangzhou Opera House two years ago, has expanded so explosively that a contingent of pirate architects and construction teams in southern China is now building a carbon copy of one of Hadid's Beijing projects.
What's worse, Hadid said in an interview, she is now being forced to race these pirates to complete her original project first.
[Via Ed Cotton]
December 28, 2012
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