Queen of the skyline

It was in December 2007 that news about a certain skyscraper first started appearing on the front pages of Polish newspapers and magazines. It wasn’t some controversial project that had attracted media attention, but rather that yet another A-list architect of world-renown had been chosen for a new project in Warsaw. Zaha Hadid finally took her cue from her peers Daniel Libeskind and Sir Norman Foster, and presented her Warsaw Lilium Tower project. “I visited Warsaw many years ago. I don’t think the Palace of Culture – a landmark Varsovian building that everyone criticizes – is ugly. In fact I like it,” Zaha Hadid said during a dinner she hosted at the Marriott hotel, shortly after her arrival in Warsaw at the end of May. Despite a busy schedule dominated by meetings with investors and city officials, combined with a short trip around the city, Zaha Hadid still managed to find a few minutes to talk to a select group of journalists, including Mladen