"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it." – Daniel Libeskind

Picture description: an apposition of two pictures: on prime, Large Duck (Lengthy Island, NY), constructed by duck farmer Martin Mauer in 1931, is an iconic constructing which takes the quaint mimetic type of a duck. At backside, Capital Hill Residence (Barvikha, Russia). Zaha Hadid's solely personal residential work, the $140m villa, although abstracted and articulated in Hadid's attribute aggressive and aerodynamical kinds, is clearly and unmistakably, additionally, a duck.