{"id":794,"date":"2008-06-04T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=794"},"modified":"2008-06-04T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T13:00:43","slug":"the-wonder-of-warsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"The Wonder of Warsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/zha_external-render_sq.jpg\" title=\"Rise, Zaha, rise!\" alt=\"Rise, Zaha, rise!\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve adored the work of Iraqi-born, London-based architect Zaha Hadid for years, and soon 1.7 million Poles will, also. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/23\/arts\/design\/23arts-ANOTHERWARSA_BRF.html\"  target=\"_blank\">Notes <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, the Pritzker Prize-winning Hadid\u2014the only woman to have been awarded the field&#8217;s &#8220;Nobel&#8221;\u2014is about to construct a residential structure towering 790 feet above Warsaw&#8217;s streets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Called Lilium Tower, the sleek, glass-covered building, with floor space of 1.1 million square feet has a fleur-de-lis motif and is to house apartments, a condominium hotel and commercial and recreational facilities on a site facing the city\u2019s Palace of Culture. Some planning permits are still needed; completion is expected in 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember when the extant question about Hadid was, &#8220;Yes, but when will she actually <em>build<\/em> something?&#8221; Now it&#8217;s &#8220;When will she <em>stop<\/em>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bravo, Zaha. Keep &#8217;em guessing&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve adored the work of Iraqi-born, London-based architect Zaha Hadid for years, and soon 1.7 million Poles will, also. Notes The New York Times, the Pritzker Prize-winning Hadid\u2014the only woman to have been awarded the field&#8217;s &#8220;Nobel&#8221;\u2014is about to construct a residential structure towering 790 feet above Warsaw&#8217;s streets. Called Lilium Tower, the sleek, glass-covered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}