This immensely successful show that featured intimate interviews was both produced and hosted by Ricardo Adopting the face-to-face formula was a calculated smart move that allowed Ricardo to probe his subjects in greater depth
Awarded a CBE for services to architecture the Iraqi born Hadid has won many international design competitions notably for Hong Kong Singapore Basle and Cardiff Hadid studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London where in turn she began to lecture after establishing her own London based practice in 1979 Her current project is for a 20000 seat Aquatics Center being constructed for the summer Olympics in 2012 Also contracted was her high profile interior work Mind Zone at the Millenium Dome in London Hadid was awarded the Pritzer Architecture Prize in 2004 its first female recipient
