'Zaha Hadid leaves a formidable legacy'

I first met Zaha Hadid in the most inauspicious circumstances, when I was on “the client side” of the Cardiff Bay Opera House debacle in the mid 1990s. She was treated badly in that process and Nicholas Edwards, the chairman of the Cardiff Bay Opera House Trust who was the former Secretary of State for Wales, wrote the book Opera House Lottery (1997) as an attempt to set the record straight. Somehow our relationship survived the circumstances and at one of a number of commiserative