Architect Zaha Hadid, who won this year’s Pritzker Prize, lives in London. “But while her small collection of completed works has catapulted her to recognition in America and on the Continent, she has not a single building to her name in Britain, where she has lived for 30 years. Although her designs won a competition for the Welsh opera house, local politics, which found her strangely angled planes too much to stomach, saw them off. Since then she has repeatedly entered British competitions such as one for a multi-million pound BBC music centre in west London, without luck.”