Hadid's successes were so consistent, she received the highest honors from civic, academic, and professional institutions across the globe.
In 2014, a report disclosed that about 1,000 foreign workers had died because of poor working conditions across construction sites in Qatar, where her Al Wakrah Stadium for the 2022 World Cup was set to break ground. When asked about the deaths, Hadid objected to her responsibility as an architect to ensure safe working conditions. Her remarks were widely regarded as insensitive. An architecture critic of The New York Review of Books exacerbated the situation when he falsely claimed that 1,000 had died building her stadium. Hadid filed a defamation lawsuit against the critic and publication. She later settled, accepted an apology and donated the undisclosed sum to a charity protecting labour rights.
As you can see, even when Hadid found herself in 'sticky situations,' she found the right way to dissolve them. Instead of keeping the money from the lawsuit for herself, she gave it to a charity that protected labor rights.
Not only did she make a mark with her money, she also showed many women that they are capable of anything, no matter what society may say. She did this by being the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize (considered the Nobel Prize of Architecture) in 2004. In 2000, she also was the first woman to design an American Musuem in Cincinati, Ohio which opened in 2003.
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