Light-filled labyrinth of a museum

Reported by Brisbane Times on Thursday, 19 November 2009 (on November 19, 2009)

O n paper, Zaha Hadid's drawings for Rome's new museum of 21st-century arts looked like a surreal motorway intersection imagined by J.G. Ballard or the wiring diagram of a palace for esoteric giants. The British Iraqi architect's floor plans were some of the most mesmerising and challenging since Frank Lloyd Wright unveiled his seemingly improbable designs for New York's Guggenheim Museum more than 50 years ago.

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