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But the appeal of the Prtizker Prize winner's experimental architecture, especially since the unveiling of her glowing, crystalline Guangzhou Opera House two years ago, has expanded so explosively that a contingent of pirate architects and construction teams in southern China is now building a carbon copy of one of Hadid's Beijing projects.[Via Ed Cotton]
What's worse, Hadid said in an interview, she is now being forced to race these pirates to complete her original project first.