Hadid and Howie reviewed some of the people they planned to invite, and then they discussed all the things they needed to do before leaving for South Korea the following day, to attend a groundbreaking ceremony in Seoul.Ī cool breeze from the street blew a change of mood across Hadid. Hadid’s largest completed building to date, the National Museum of the XXI Century Arts, or MAXXI, in Rome, was opening in the fall, and plans for a grand celebration were under way. He was on his third cell-phone battery of the day. In New York, she was managing with only one assistant, Roger Howie, who was seated across from her at the Mercer. Their job is both to field the calls and e-mails and text messages that stream in at all hours from clients, contractors, and friends around the world, and to serve as a chorus for Hadid’s stray thoughts, grievances, and colloquies on topics as varied as Prince Charles’s architectural notions (“very scary”), an upcoming dental appointment, and art-world gossip gleaned at last night’s dinner party. Hadid is rarely in public without an assistant or two nearby. You can’t say, “I’ll be in the back,” because there is no back. “Why limit yourself to one?”) Few repeating forms-columns, windows, doorframes-guide you through her spaces, which may be why some people, on entering a Zaha Hadid building for the first time, are reminded of childhood experiences in large structures: You’re disoriented. (“There are three hundred and fifty-nine other degrees,” Hadid likes to say. In her buildings, walls are never quite vertical, floors seldom remain flat for long, and the twain meet not in ninety-degree angles but, rather, in the kinds of curves one finds in skateboard parks. Hadid is devoted to helping architecture catch up. The twisty geometry of an ordinary potato chip, to say nothing of the curves in modern cars and phones, is a reminder of how few buildings look as if they belonged in the digital world. The sandwich came with potato chips, and Hadid examined one, turning it in her fingers, which were long and tapered and ended in bright-red nails, before putting it into her mouth.
Clad in black leggings and a matching long-sleeved top, her body appeared to be made of twisted-together black balloons, and her dramatic cape (like Frank Lloyd Wright, she favors capes)-black, with scalloped edges-brought to mind a high-fashion peasant’s shawl, producing an effect that was at once regal and homeless. Ever since her twenties, Hadid has dressed to be noticed, and today was no exception.
There’s a distinctive orange stripe at the crest of her dark hair, and in certain lights it appears to glow, as though heated by the fierce ideation going on in the brain below. She has a remarkably emotive face, which veers from sweetly girlish to volcanically enraged in a heartbeat (although the heart may skip that beat on witnessing this transformation for the first time). Bits of the sandwich were falling out of her mouth as she spoke, in a husky voice. Of course, a recommendation could be made for people to google our history, but that would mean they would have to leave this website and well, we want them to stay here forever, or at least until dinner.One unusually warm afternoon last April, Zaha Hadid, the Baghdad-born, London-based architect, was seated on a banquette in the Mercer, in SoHo, her preferred hotel in New York, eating a chicken panino. There is a risk that this section will either be too short and shallow to tell the entire history of oat drink, or in fact consume an entire website in itself to reveal the unabridged encyclopaedic endeavor that it is so enticing for a writer, so a suggestion would be to find some medium ground where history is shared but not too much history. We need to make the oat drink story interesting enough that people don’t fall asleep while reading! In some regions growth was built steadily over time, but that’s not what is important in this section. Well an overnight sensation is a bit of an overstatement actually. How did oat drink come to be and more importantly, why? That’s what this section should cover, and in doing so it should allude to our history as the originator of oat drink while pulling important milestones from our past so that the reader fully understands that oat drink took more than three decades to make and perfect before it became an overnight sensation.
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