Swoopstress Zaha Hadid, who designed one of the London Olympics' most controversial structures, has been tapped to design the stadium for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Designed to hold 45,000 people during the tournament, the project is but one of many happening right now for the Iraqi-born British architect, who just opened her first-ever storefront and signed on for a 220,000-square-foot metro station in Saudi Arabia. [Dezeen; previously]
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