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Time magazine calls Gehry the world's most famous architect. Gehry just designed an outdoor music pavilion for Chicago's new Millennium Park, a former rail yard that's been transformed into a destination for the arts. He designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

Hadid is the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's coveted award. Hadid lives in London, but was born in Iraq. Her buildings include a fire station in Germany, a housing project in Berlin, a tram station and car park in Strasbourg, a ski jump in Austria, and the Richard and Lois Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. This week's winner is Ben Rosenthal from Takoma Park, Md. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WETA in Washington, D.C.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. This week's winner is Barbara Cruse from Florham Park, N.J.. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WNYC in New York.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports on the massive ice storm that struck the south this week. One of the communities hardest hit was the vacation destination of Hot Springs, Arkansas, where a national park was closed and hotels were forced to turn away guests when the town lost electricity and water earlier this week.

Robert talks to Pieter Timm, diver with the Triton Dive Trotters at the Sodwana Bay National Park in South Africa, about his sighting of a coelacanth, a type of fish that has existed for 360 million years. Timm said that he first saw the fish in October while giving a diving lesson. Later he returned with a team of divers and took pictures.

NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. This week's winner is Glenn Grayson from Overland Park, Kansas. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station KCUR in Kansas City, Mo.

NPR's Tom Bowman says his decades of roaming Pentagon halls ended after NPR refused to sign a new policy requiring reporters to wait for official information releases - but his reporting hasn't slowed at all.

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the death of Ndakasi, the gorilla who went viral for a photobomb a few years ago. A picture taken of her last moments in her caretaker's arms also went viral this week.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye was called a "capricious whore who asks her fancy man to do harm to other person while providing sex to him." The "fancy man" in question: President Obama.