This news (via Artinfo's Madeleine O'Dea) does not bode well for the architect:
As Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House Leaks and Crumbles, Critics in China Crack a Smile
The Opera House's "twin boulder" design with its sinuous flow of granite and glass was widely acclaimed when the building officially opened in April, but just a few months later evidence of hasty and slipshod construction work is causing embarrassment. The building is leaking badly and cracks mar its walls and ceiling. More seriously, many of the 75,000 granite panels that make up the building's fluid facade are to be replaced, as it has become clear that the original panels were shoddily made and incompetently laid.