If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
From Zaha Hadid
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.
I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?
In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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