▲She was the first woman to win that award, and clearly earned the title of "Queen of Curve."

▲Hadid’s fluid, undulating design for the cultural center won the London Design Museum’s award for Design of the Year in 2014.

▲Hadid's design added a glass extension to a derelict fire station to create a single office for all the port workers.

▲Her stark geometric designs express a sense of fragmentation, instability, and movement.

▲A Chinese court reportedly ordered a blog to pay US$30,000 to a real estate developer after printing an article that criticized the feng shui of Hadid's WangJing SOHO complex in Beijing.

▲The Learning Center Hadid designed leans out over the street, and it's another good example of why she's grouped in with "destructivist" architects.

▲Destructivism is a movement of postmodern architecture which is characterized by an absence of harmony, continuity, or symmetry. And yet look how stunning imbalance can be!

▲In her early days, Hadid began to be known as a “paper architect,” meaning her designs were too avant-garde to move beyond the sketch phase.

▲Together with SOHO, China’s largest prime office real-estate developer, Hadid designed Shanghai's famous new landmark building.

▲Hadid designed the Magazine restaurant extension to the gallery in London's Kensington Gardens.

▲If this was your office in Beijing, wouldn't you be excited to go to work?

▲It's an enormous structure with offices and retail space, which connects local residents to multinational, national, and local enterprises.

▲Hadid loved creating interconnecting spaces and highlighting the dynamic sculptural side of architecture.

▲Despite the bright space being a world away from its history, she kept the wall of the former 1805 gunpowder store on display.

▲One of Hadid's best-known structures has also become a famous landmark in Guangzhou.

▲Hadid designed the London’s Science Museum, which is fittingly designed to highlight the role of mathematical practice in our lives.

▲Its unique design opens up onto the Pearl River, and aims to create a dialogue between the space and its surrounding residents.

▲Located in Seoul City is the world's largest amorphous structure, which is also probably the most futuristic of all Hadid's designs.

▲What could have been a simple pedestrian bridge over the River Ebro in Zaragoza got the Hadid makeover.

▲The fluid, dynamic structure was designed to match the 2008 Zaragoza Expo's theme: water and sustainable development.

▲Hadid designed the building for the 2012 Olympic Games.

▲The plaza is comprised of five halls: Art Hall, Museum, Design Lab, Design Market, and Dongdaemun History and Culture Park. The futuristic design is largely characterized by the powerful, curving forms and the overwhelming size.

▲Created for the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design, this astounding shape is surely a source of inspiration for students every day.

▲This contemporary art museum at Michigan State University opened in 2012.

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Hadid’s boldly imaginative design earned her the Stirling Prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects, for the best building by a British architect completed in 2010.

▲The terminal building was designed by Hadid's firm and French planners ADPI, and was inaugurated in 2019. Its central hub and six curved spokes are bound to wow.

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Rome's museum of contemporary art and architecture is, in itself, a thing to admire.

▲Zaha Hadid Architects won an international competition in 2000 to design the new cruise terminal.

▲The funicular system dating back to 1906, which offered passage around the hills of Innsbruck, was replaced in 2007 by a stunning Hadid design which became a tourist destination in its own right.

▲Besides looking like a teetering ship from the outside, the 15-story structure accommodates up to 1,800 students and staff in its unique shape every day.

▲The design suits the museum's dedication to the history and discipline of mountaineering.

▲Embedded in the summit of Mount Kronplatz, this daring museum sits 2,275 m (7464 ft) above sea level.

▲Besides being sublimely gorgeous, the design aims to develop the social, environmental, and economic regeneration of Salerno.

▲This unique construction contains not only a ski ramp, but also other sports facilities, a tower-top cafe, and viewing terrace.

▲Hadid also famously designed condominium residences along the High Line in Manhattan, with signature curved windows.

▲While these designs already seem radical, it's reported that she created many more radical designs which were never put into construction.

▲Hadid also designed modern residential properties, like Citylife in Milan, which she completed with the help of Arata Isozaki and Daniel Libeskind.

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Dame Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi-born British architect known for her radical designs that blow everything you thought you knew about architecture out of the water. After her sudden death from a heart attack in 2016, Hadid left 36 unfinished projects, many of which will be completed by her firm posthumously. Click through to see how she earned her title as the "Queen of Curve," and how this woman, now permanently in the past, has shaped buildings of the future.

▲Glasgow's redesigned Riverside Museum mimics a wave or pleat which connects the city to the Clyde River waterfront, symbolizing the dynamic relationship between the two.

▲Its fluid shape, both inside and out, is perfect for the aquatic purpose of the building.

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Located in Cincinnati, Ohio, this 85,000-sq-ft (7,900-sq-m) center was actually the first American museum designed by a woman.

▲Her work remains beloved and fiercely protected.

▲Hadid’s first major project ever built was a fire station in Weil am Rhein, which through its sharply angled planes is meant to define space rather than occupy it.