Zaha Hadid’s dynamic paintings go on show in London

Large-scale paintings by Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) as well as drawings and notebooks go on display today (8 December) in the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, which the late architect converted into an art space. The dramatic, visionary images of cities and buildings, include a student project for a hotel on a bridge over the river Thames, completed in the late 1970s while at Londons Architecture Association (AA). Inspired by Russian Constructivist designs for daring and unrealised building, Hadid used