Crazy angles, soaring steel: Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou opera house

By Thomas Lane and Thomas Lane Thomas Lane2009-07-17T00:00:00

As the Chinese city of Guangzhou races to build a new district in time for the 2010 Asian Games, the designs of two British architects enter the spotlight. Thomas Lane charts the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Zaha Hadid’s opera house and Wilkinson Eyre’s West Tower

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