New Yorker critic Paul Goldberger breaks out his golden quill for Zaha Hadid's two recent buildings in the UK, a school in Brixton and a transportation museum in Glasgow. While many of the so-called First Lady of Architecture's buildings have suffered from poor construction, Goldberger asserts that "like Lady Gaga, Hadid has rather more to her than a showy exterior." Perhaps the most telling Zaha bon mot is from an earlier review of her work in the mag's hallowed pages, circa 1988: "The project [is] as yet unbuilt, but is said to be buildable." [The New Yorker]
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