2024-11-14T22:03:10-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/12426090/a-building-s-fluid-forms Nam Henderson 2011-07-06T13:19:18-04:00 >2011-07-07T11:09:30-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/zp/zpu5slfn8kc7zvub.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>For some the plazas will conjure the alienating public spaces found in de Chirico paintings and Antonioni films. And one of Ms. Hadid&rsquo;s aims over the years has been to rehabilitate those kinds of empty expanses, which went out of favor in the 1970s and &rsquo;80s. The difference is in her ability to convey a sense of bodies in motion.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Nicolai Ouroussoff who will soon be <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/12362460/new-york-times-names-michael-kimmelman-to-be-new-architecture-critic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">replaced by Michael Kimmelman</a> has a review of the new Guangzhou Opera House designed by Zaha Hadid. He finds that while the quality of construction (mostly done by unskilled migrant workers) and location/context (generic new business district at the outer edge of this city) leave something to be desired the project is a&nbsp; "<strong>magnificent example of how a single building can redeem a moribund urban environment.</strong>"</p>