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Many department stores are lying empty across the US as more of us shop online. One school found a unique use for one of them when they urgently needed a new home.

Zaha Hadid, a trailblazing British-Iraqi architect, passed away seven years ago at the peak of her career. As a woman of Arab descent, she defied the traditional mould of what an architect should be and left an indelible mark on the field of contemporary design.

JSTOR looked at how she changed architecture.

What was once a statue of Lenin transformed into a monument to the most famous Sith Lord in the universe.