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Architect Zaha Hadid Fires Back At Critics Of Her So-called “vagina Stadium” by 360naija: 10:30pm On Nov 28, 2013
Zaha Hadid, the world’s best-known female architect, is none too pleased with critics like Jon Stewart, who have mocked her Al Wakrah Stadium—designed with AECOM for the in Qatar—and likened her to the “Georgia O’Keeffe of things you can walk inside.”

“It’s really embarrassing that they come up with nonsense like this,” Hadid tells TIME exclusively. “What are they saying? Everything with a hole in it is a vagina? That’s ridiculous.”

The curved, open roof is meant to evoke the the sail of the dhow, a traditional fishing boat common in Qatar. “Honestly, if a guy had done this project,” she adds, critics would not be making such lewd comparisons
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Re: Architect Zaha Hadid Fires Back At Critics Of Her So-called “vagina Stadium” by Nobody: 5:50am On Nov 29, 2013
Good of u Arch. Zaha! Prove ur self ryt b4 they frame u.

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