Zaha Hadid
Architecture and Design

Tom Dyckhoff writes…

Tom Dyckhoff, the architecture critic at The Times, has written an essay especially for this blog:

They didn’t have spellcheck back in 1982. Which is a shame because Zaha could have done with it. To a word-nerd like me, raised by lupine subeditors who think Lynne Truss is a wuss, and to whom every last apostrophe, every last correctly placed pronoun is a thing of exquisite beauty, close to divinity, the blurb in the exhibition accompanying her winning entry for the early-80s competition to build a luxury club, The Peak, in Hong Kong is enough to start palpitations. There are the inevitable mangled apostrophes (“it’sâ€? instead of “itsâ€?), wayward or absent commas, the misspellings (“seperateâ€?), the John Prescott sentences (“following the demolishment of the existing apartmentsâ€?), the non-sequiturs that actually start out quite nicely (“the architecture appears like a knife cutting through butter devastating all the traditional principlesâ€?). Read the rest of this entry »

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