Pirated Zaha Hadid building under construction in China Currently under construction in Beijing, the Zaha Hadid-designed development Wangjing SOHO is an office and retail complex whose gently curving walls are intended to resemble dancing Chinese fans. Located between central Beijing and Beijing Capital International Airport, it is expected to become another landmark building following its completion in 2014. Visitors to the Chinese city of Chongqing, however, may be surprised to see the development of the Meiquan 22nd Century building, said by observers to be a copy of Hadid's Beijing development. Iraqi-born, London-based Hadid is best known in the UK for the London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre and, with the launch of buildings such as Guangzhou's Opera House in 2010, she is also well-established in China. She is designing some 11 projects in the country currently. Addressing the Chongqing development, Satoshi Ohashi, Zaha Hadid Architects project director for the Wangjing Soho complex, said: ""It is possible that the Chongqing pirates got hold of some digital files or renderings of the project... If someone really likes Zaha, we will probably see more of her designs across China. Efforts by Wangjing Soho developers to curtail the development of Meiquan 22nd Century could prove problematic. Piracy is rife in parts of China and as well as offering an outlet for counterfeit products, some areas already house counterfeit structures. In 2011 it emerged that a fake Apple store had opened in the city of Kunming; in the same year, residents of the Austrian village of Hallstatt, a UNESCO World Heritage site and popular tourist attraction, were shocked to learn that Chinese developers had surreptitiously collected data on the area and were building a replica village in the country's Guandong province.