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For Muslims and women, Zaha Hadid was a shining torch

Zaha was an outsider and upfront about the unfair treatment she experienced – but her fight came at great personal cost

Zaha was an outsider and upfront about the unfair treatment she experienced as a woman, a foreigner and a designer of expensive, weird-looking buildings – a triple whammy. She did not fit the stereotypical white male profession of registered architects. Jealousy and prejudice failed to bar her way, but it took its toll. Very few people realise the misogynistic, racist and anti-architect environment she had to navigate in Britain. For Muslims, minorities and women, Zaha is a shining torch beaming into the dark minds for whom a few tiles falling off a building seemed a justification to dismiss her work.

Just putting some finishing touches on this piece of Mor and Awyr. Dr Martins watercolors and Deleter 2 white ink with faux sable brushes on Arches hot press watercolor paper.

600 COLLINS STREET by Zaha Hadid Architects

Old Dominion Building 😎

That’s polaris. The north star. 

That’s how sailors used to find their way home. 

When I look at you, that’s what I see.

I see my way home.

#POLARIS #STAR

What’s Up November 2017

What’s Up For November?

Dawn pairing of Jupiter and Venus, Moon shines near star clusters, meteor activity all month long!

This month binoculars will come in handy–to view the moon, star clusters, and a close pairing of Venus and Jupiter.

You can’t miss bright Venus in the predawn sky. This month Venus pairs up with Jupiter on the morning of November 13th.

The Leonids peak on a moonless November 17th. Expect no more than 10 meteors an hour around 3:00 a.m., the height of the shower.

The Northern and Southern sub-branches of the Taurid meteor shower offer sparse counts of about 5 meteors per hour, but slow, bright meteors are common.

The nearby November Orionids peak on the 28th. In contrast to the Taurids, the Orionids are swift. But don’t expect more than 3 meteors per hour.

The moon glides by three beautiful star clusters in the morning sky this month, and a pair of binoculars will allow you to see the individual stars in the clusters. Aim your binoculars at the Pleiades and the moon on the 5th.

Then aim at the Messier or M-35 cluster and the moon on the 7th and the Beehive cluster and the moon on the 10th.

Meanwhile, at dusk, catch Saturn as it dips closer to the western horizon and pairs up with Mercury on the 24th through the 28th.

Also, Comet C/2017 O1 should still be a binocular-friendly magnitude 7 or 8 greenish object in November. Use Polaris, the North Star as a guide. Look in the East to Northeast sky in the late evening.  

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Swarm Chandelier by Zaha Hadid

Concept work done for Syn Studios’ Gathering of the Masters ‘18  ‘Tron in the Daylight’ workshop.  Had fun returning to my comfort zone! Started out as a building that became a ‘Yacht’ of some variety … super fun. 

Zaha Hadid in her London office in 1985. Photo by Christopher Pillitz.

Heydar Aliyev Center - Interior

Baku, Azerbaijan

Zaha Hadid Architects

Photographs: Iwan Baan, Hufton+Crow,  Hélène Binet