Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: leading architects including Norman Foster, Bjarke Ingels, Richard Rogers and Daniel Libeskind have paid tribute to the late Zaha Hadid in a video created by Dezeen and Architizer.
Foster called the Iraq-born architect, who died last month, "a very special person" while Libeskind said she was "a star in the firmament of ideas".
Norman Foster: "How do you sum Zaha up" A great architect and a great person. A very special person." Portrait by Dezeen
Filmed in London and New York over the last two weeks, the movie was screened at Architizer's A+Awards Gala in New York last night.
A dazzling array of architects and leading international figures from the arts and media ? many of whom had close friendships with Hadid ? agreed to speak about the Pritzker-prize winner. Many of them gave moving tributes. Daniel Libeskind: "Zaha was a pioneer. And she was a star in the firmament of ideas and of poetry. And once a star goes out, there is really no-one to replace it. She was unique." Portrait by Architizer
"Zaha was a genius," said Deborah Berke, dean of Yale School of Architecture. "She was doing work that nobody else conceived of, never mind figured out how to build."

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