Diva divine all architects excelling.

And so to the website of the extraordinary Zaha Hadid at www.zaha-hadid.com. Slightly scarily you are greeted by a black screen and there at the bottom right through a veil of moving vertical lines is a black and white head view of Herself. Click more or less anywhere on the moving lines and up slide more parallel lines, groups of which are kinked in different direction so the effect is rather like a railway marshalling yard.

Move the cursor over one or another of these and out of their top ends shoot different topics: 'projects', 'studio', 'gallery' and so on. It's extremely helpful if you have a giant screen because this effect is not especially visible if you happen to be at the bottom right of the page. If you are there, all you can see is one or another of the trackways pulsating. Be sure that you find the home button to get back to where you were: bashing the browser's Back button either doesn't work or kicks you out of the browser altogether--at least I think that's how I was ejected on three or four occasions. So technically this is a pretty primitive site and unless you think her design is marvellous, it is off-puttingly offhand. On the other hand, we are, aren't we, all devotees and can only complain feebly about the too-small size of the delicious images.

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