For some the plazas will conjure the alienating public spaces found in de Chirico paintings and Antonioni films. And one of Ms. Hadid’s aims over the years has been to rehabilitate those kinds of empty expanses, which went out of favor in the 1970s and ’80s. The difference is in her ability to convey a sense of bodies in motion. — New York Times
Nicolai Ouroussoff who will soon be replaced by Michael Kimmelman 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 "magnificent example of how a single building can redeem a moribund urban environment."
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