Although she subsequently returned to a space nearby with her 2007 installation lilas, the baghdad-born architect showed the rapidity of her design capacities with her first pavilion. despite a budget that provided the means for merely the design of an improved tent, Hadid made a considerable impression in london. the idea of a summer event space, create in a very short span of time and intended to last only three months, was very much the product of zaha hadid's first success at the serpentinein june 2000