Zaha Hadid's Massive Drop in Revenue

Last week, we told you that looking at the Met‘s finances from 2008-2009 was a good indicator of how tough the economic downfall was on the museum industry (ignoring SFMOMA, of course), and now we give you another individual representation of the financial mess, this time in architecture. Building Design reports that starchitect Zaha Hadid, despite having had another year of buzz and seemingly nonstop commissions, has released her firm’s financials and they show a loss of nearly 70% in revenue in just a single year (“over £5 million in 2008 to £1.6