Editing St Antony's College, Oxford (section)

===The Investcorp Building===
[[File:Investcorp Building.jpg|thumb|The Investcorp Building was one of Zaha Hadid's last completed projects before her death in 2016.]]
As part of its ongoing development programme, St Antony's commissioned the construction of a new centre for Middle Eastern Studies. The Middle East Centre, or Investcorp Building, was designed by the Iraqi-British architect [[Zaha Hadid]]; it broke ground on 30 January 2013<ref name="Middle East Centre">{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/10195791.Work_starts_on_futuristic_Oxford_University_building/|title=Work starts on futuristic Oxford University building|work=[[The Oxford Times]]|date=2013-01-31|access-date=2015-07-20}}</ref> and was opened as the Investcorp Building on 26 May 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=Zaha Hadid's Middle East Centre lands in Oxford|author-link=Jonathan Glancey|first=Jonathan|last=Glancey|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/architecture/11670659/zaha-hadid-investcorp-building-oxford.html|work=[[The Sunday Telegraph]]|location=London|date=2015-06-14|access-date=2015-07-20}}</ref><ref name=theindependent>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/architecture/zaha-hadid-s-modernist-library-inspires-shock-and-awe-in-oxford-10277247.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/architecture/zaha-hadid-s-modernist-library-inspires-shock-and-awe-in-oxford-10277247.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|author=Jay Merrick|title=Zaha Hadid's modernist library inspires shock and awe in Oxford|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=26 May 2015|access-date=23 October 2017}}</ref> [[The Guardian (newspaper)|The Guardian]] described it as a "writhing metallic slug that does its best to maul the two historic buildings between which its contorted body is slung".<ref name="Guardian_2016">{{cite news |last1=Wainwright |first1=Oliver |title=RIBA awards 2016: academic buildings dominate list of UK's best architecture |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jun/23/riba-awards-2016-motorway-service-station-among-uks-best-buildings |access-date=22 January 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=23 June 2016}}</ref> It was awarded the [[List of winners of the Sir Hugh Casson Award|Sir Hugh Casson Award]] in 2015 for the worst new building of the year.<ref name="Guardian_2016"/>