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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

Zaha Hadid

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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
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Jewelry Designer
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University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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