Zaha Hadid Wins the Stirling Prize

If you’re the betting type and you followed the bookie-backed tip we offered back in July that Zaha Hadid was the favored-to-win in the race for this year’s Sterling Prize, you’d now be collecting your winnings. This past Saturday, at a ceremony held in London and broadcast live on the BBC, the Royal Institute of British Architects awarded Hadid the prize for her much-discussed MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome. The architect had been nominated for the prize three times over the past five years but had not yet won until