Zaha Hadid Architects, 10 Bowling Green Lane, London (2026)

31/10/2022

Zaha Hadid: Born On This Day

“[Architecture’s] most singular star… its only Zaha.”
The Economist (2008)

Portrait by Jason Schmidt Studio for New York Magazine (2006)

25/10/2022

Zaha Hadid Architects wins competition to design the new Hangzhou International Sports Centre.

Incorporating a 60,000-seat football stadium and practice pitches, the centre also includes a 19,000-seat indoor arena as well as an aquatics centre with two 50-metre pools. The centre establishes a new riverfront park and public plazas with direct access to Lines 3 and 5 of the city’s expanding metro network.

Accommodating Hangzhou’s growing population, the International Sports Centre’s design provides a variety of facilities for grassroots players to professional athletes.

The stadium, indoor arena and aquatics centre are connected by the centre’s layered podium that weaves through the site. Informed by the terracing of the tea farms on Hangzhou’s surrounding hillsides, the striated 45,000 sq.m podium houses the sports centre’s ancillary facilities that are shared between the venues.

The stadium’s façade is open to the exterior with louvres sheltering terraces that host a variety of food and beverage outlets offering views across the city.

Designed to FIFA standards, the stadium’s seating bowl is configured to bring spectators as close as possible to the field of play and ensure excellent, unrestricted views from every seat; creating an intense matchday atmosphere for players on the pitch and fans seated throughout the stadium. These programmatic requirements define geometries that are expressed as undulations within the louvred façade which gives the stadium a stratified, geological appearance of solidity when viewed from nearby. When viewed from a distance, the louvred façade becomes transparent.

Located within the warm temperate climate of Hangzhou, the International Sports Centre has been designed to the highest 3-Star rating of China’s Green Building Program with each venue providing optimal conditions using natural hybrid ventilation most of the year. Annual solar irradiation analysis has determined the composition of the façade’s external louvres while photovoltaics will harvest solar power for all venues. Ground heat exchange and recovery systems will ensure the most efficient operations of all facilities.

Render by BrickVisual

https://www.zaha-hadid.com/2022/10/25/zha-to-build-hangzhou-international-sports-centre/

27/09/2022

Opus in Dubai, home to the ME Melia Hotel, has won the 2022 MUSE Hotel Award in the Architecture Design - Hotels & Resorts

The MUSE Hotel Awards' mission is to honour and raise the benchmark of the hotel business, hospitality and tourism industry.

Opus was designed as two separate towers that coalesce into a singular whole—taking the form of a cube. The cube has been ‘eroded’ in its centre, creating a free-form void that is an important volume of the design in its own right. The two halves of the building on either side of the void are linked by a four-storey atrium at ground level and also connected by an asymmetric bridge 71 metres above the ground.

The cube’s double-glazed insulating facades incorporate a UV coating and a mirrored frit pattern to reduce solar gain, while the void is created from 4,300 individual units of flat, single-curved or double-curved glass. The high-efficiency glazing units are comprised of 8mm Low-E glass (coated on the inside), a 16mm cavity between the panes and 2 layers of 6mm clear glass with a 1.52mm PVB resin laminate.

During the day, the cube’s facade reflects the sky, the sun and the surrounding city; whilst at night, the void is illuminated by a dynamic light installation of individually controllable LEDs within each glass panel.

Furniture by Zaha Hadid Design is installed throughout the hotel, and the hotel’s bedrooms incorporate the ‘Vitae’ bathroom collection, designed by Hadid in 2015 for Porcelanosa, continuing her fluid architectural language throughout the hotel’s interiors.

https://www.zaha-hadid.com/2022/09/27/opus-wins-muse-hotel-awards/

26/09/2022

Beijing Daxing International Airport, located in the Daxing district 46km south of the city centre (20 minutes by express train), began passenger operations three years ago today.

Beijing Daxing’s 700,000m² passenger terminal includes an 80,000m² ground transportation centre offering direct connections to Beijing, the national high-speed rail network and local train services, providing a catalyst for economic development in Tianjin and Hebei Province.

Beijing Daxing sets a new standard in air transport services, serving the region’s growing population within a compact and efficient passenger terminal that is adaptable for future growth.

Echoing principles within traditional Chinese architecture that organise interconnected spaces around a central courtyard, the terminal’s design guides all passengers seamlessly through the relevant departure, arrival or transfer zones towards the grand courtyard at its centre – a multi-layered meeting space at the heart of the terminal.

Six flowing forms within the terminal’s vaulted roof reach to the ground to support the structure and bring natural light within, directing all passengers towards the central courtyard. Natural light also enters the terminal via a network of linear skylights that provide an intuitive system of navigation throughout the building, guiding passengers to and from their departure gates.

Structural spans of up to 100m create the terminal's generous public spaces and allow the highest degree of flexibility for any future reconfiguration.

The compact radial design of the terminal allows a maximum number of aircraft to be parked directly at the terminal with minimum distances from the centre of the building, providing exceptional convenience for passengers and flexibility in operations. 79 gates with airbridges connect directly to the terminal which can rapidly process the passengers of six full A380 aircraft simultaneously.

Five aircraft piers radiate directly from the terminal’s main central court where all passenger services and amenities are located, enabling passengers to walk the comparatively short distances through the airport without the need for automated shuttle trains. As a result, the terminal’s compact design minimises distances between check-in and gate, as well as connections between gates for transferring passengers. This radial configuration ensures the farthest boarding gate can be accessed in a walking time of less than 8 minutes.

Photovoltaic power generation is installed throughout the airport to provide a minimum capacity of at least 10MW. Beijing Daxing's centralised heating with waste heat recovery is supported by a composite ground-source heat pump system incorporating a concentrated energy supply area of nearly 2.5 million m².

The airport also implements rainwater collection and a water management system that employs the natural storage, natural permeation and natural purification of up to 2.8 million cubic meters of water in new wetlands, lakes and streams to prevent flooding and counter the summer ‘heat island’ effect on its local microclimate.

https://www.zaha-hadid.com/2022/09/26/beijing-daxing-international-airport-began-passenger-operations-3-years-ago/

20/09/2022

Construction of the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre has begun with a ground-breaking ceremony hosted by city and regional officials.

“The Jinghe New City Culture and Art Centre will promote the highest standards of construction throughout the city. Creating a variety of new public spaces to serve the community, the project demonstrates Jinghe New City’s determination to provide architecture and urbanism of the highest quality,” said Hongwei Zhang, committee member of Xixian New Area and Jinghe New City.

 The centre’s design intertwines with the city’s existing urban masterplan to connect the new multimedia library to the north of Jinghe Avenue with the new performing arts theatre, multi-function halls, studios and exhibition galleries to the south via elevated courtyards, gardens and paths that span the avenue’s eight lanes of traffic below.

With gently sloping ramps providing a gateway to the district’s network of elevated public walkways, the centre weaves through the city to link its commercial and residential districts with the parks and river to the south, while also bringing the city’s residents into the heart of the building and providing direct access to the planned metro station.

Organized as a series of flowing volumes, layers and surfaces interconnecting with courtyards and landscapes, the design defines a sequence of interior and exterior cultural and recreational spaces for its community.

Solar irradiation analysis and responsive site planning optimise the centre’s use of natural ventilation and daylight in the mild temperate climate of Jinghe New City. Incorporating photovoltaic panels for on-site power generation together with rainwater collection, the centre’s construction will prioritise locally-produced materials with a high recycled content to achieve a 3-star certification in China’s Green Building program.

https://www.zaha-hadid.com/2022/09/20/construction-begins-on-the-jinghe-new-city-culture-art-centre/

15/09/2022

Striatus has been named a finalist in the Fast Company 2022 ‘Innovation by Design’ Awards

Striatus is also shortlisted for this year’s British Construction Industry Awards (BCIA) and the iStructE Structural Awards, organised by the Institution of Structural Engineers.

The bridge’s digital concrete fabrication combines the principles of traditional vaulted construction with advanced computational design, engineering and robotic manufacturing technologies. The result is a ‘super-lightweight’ bridge that eliminates waste by using material only where structurally necessary.

The bridge, developed by the Block Research Group (BRG) at ETH Zurich and Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design Group (ZHACODE), in collaboration with incremental3D (in3D) and made possible by Holcim, is easily maintained and demountable, and designed according to the principles of ‘reduce, re-use and recycle’

With concrete’s global carbon footprint in mind, Striatus’ lean design approach has huge potential to do more with less, slashing the embodied carbon of bridges and other structures, including flooring systems. 3D-printing concrete can reduce the use of the material by up to 70 per cent.

Earlier this year, Striatus was unanimously chosen by judges as the inaugural winner of the AJ100 Innovation of the Year award. ‘This is refreshing and well-considered,’ said one judge. ‘What I like about this is that it takes a fully-integrated view which goes from materiality, to compression structures, to aesthetics and talks about a massive reduction in material cost all the way through.’ Other judges admired the holistic and rigorous approach taken by ZHA and the wider team, the bridge’s reinterpretation of a simple but highly efficient compression system and the project’s ‘ambition to reach beyond what it is possible.’

Striatus was also selected Jury winner of an ‘Architizer A+ Award’ in the ‘Architecture + Concrete’ category and named winner of the ‘Green Design Awards’ organised by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.

https://www.zaha-hadid.com/2022/09/15/striatus-named-finalist-in-fast-companys-2022-innovation-by-design-awards/

13/09/2022

10 years ago today, Pierresvives in Montpellier celebrated its opening.

The Pierresvives building combines Herault regional government’s administrative departments with an archive integrating over 60 kilometres of storage racks at optimum conditions to preserve its documents and collections.

Located in the La Paillade district in the west of Montpellier with a local population of 25,000 residents living in social housing that had no civic spaces of their own, Pierrevives also introduced new public places for its community including a multimedia library, auditorium, exhibition spaces, reading rooms and children’s zone; integrating its local residents with the rest of the city and providing state of the art facilities for learning.

https://www.zaha-hadid.com/2022/09/13/pierrevives-opened-10-years-ago-today/

Photograph by Helene Binet

09/09/2022

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Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images at the London Aquatics Centre during London 2012 Olympic Games

16/08/2022

Infinitus Plaza is one of four ZHA projects shortlisted for The Plan Award 2022. Public voting now open via link here: https://www.zaha-hadid.com/2022/08/11/four-zha-projects-shortlisted-for-the-plan-awards-2022/

Straddling the sub-surface tunnel of Guangzhou Metro’s Line 2, Infinitus Plaza is divided into two buildings that interconnect at multiple levels. The new global headquarters of Infinitus China, the design incorporates work environments which nurture creativity and collaboration and also includes the group’s herbal medicine research facilities and safety assessment labs as well as a learning centre for conferences and exhibitions.

Anchoring the city’s new Baiyun Central Business District as a national centre for China’s health and wellness industries, Infinitus Plaza combines innovative technologies with proven sustainability strategies to create spaces that unite all departments and enhance communication throughout the group.

Located within Guangzhou’s humid subtropical monsoon climate, Infinitus Plaza has been designed and constructed to LEED Gold certification. Optimization of the structure has reduced the concrete required and increased the proportion of recyclable content. 25,088.33 tons of recycled materials have been used in its construction.

Photo by Liang Xue

01/07/2022

The BEEAH Headquarters in Sharjah is a finalist for the Society of British International Interior Design Awards 2022, in the office design category. Public voting now open via link below.

The SBID Awards recognise and celebrate design excellence across a broad range of categories, judged on their technical content and aesthetic creativity by leading industry experts as well as the public.

The BEEAH headquarters’ design responds to its environment as a series of interconnecting ‘dunes’ orientated and shaped to optimize local climatic conditions. Embedded within its context of Sharjah’s Al Sajaa desert, the design echoes the surrounding landscape shaped by prevailing winds into sand dunes and ridges.

Ensuring all internal spaces are provided with ample daylight and views while limiting the quantity of glazing exposed to the harsh sun, the headquarters’ two primary ‘dunes’ house the public and management departments together with the administrative zone that interconnect via a central courtyard, defining an oasis within the building which is integral to its natural ventilation strategy.

With a high percentage of locally procured materials including GRC panels reducing solar gain, the headquarters’ on-site water treatment filtrates waste water to minimise consumption and its solar farm charges Tesla battery packs to meet the building’s energy demand throughout each day and night. The building’s smart management system automatically adjusts lighting and temperature depending on occupancy and time of day.

Zaha Hadid Architects delivered the BEEAH Headquarters in collaboration with Atelier Ten, Buro Happold, Matthews Southwest EMEA, Al Futtaim Construction & Engineering.

https://www.zaha-hadid.com/2022/07/01/beeah-headquarters-finalist-in-sbid-international-design-awards-2022/

23/06/2022

Striatus wins AJ100 Innovation of the Year

Striatus was unanimously chosen by judges as the inaugural winner of the AJ100 Innovation of the Year award. The bridge’s digital concrete fabrication combines the time-honoured principles of traditional vaulted construction with advanced computational design, engineering and robotic manufacturing technologies. The result is a ‘super-lightweight’ bridge that eliminates waste by using material only where structurally necessary.

The bridge, developed by the Block Research Group (BRG) at ETH Zurich and Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design Group (ZHACODE), in collaboration with incremental3D (in3D) and made possible by Holcim, is easily maintained and demountable, and designed according to the principles of ‘reduce, re-use and recycle’. It took 84 hours to print all the blocks. The construction of the bridge, including foundation casting, assembly and stair and deck installation, took just 35 days.

The AJ100 judges called it an ‘outstanding’ achievement and, with concrete’s enormous global carbon footprint in mind, said its lean design approach had huge potential to do more with less, slashing the embodied carbon of bridges and other structures, including flooring systems. 3D-printing concrete can reduce the use of the material by up to 70 per cent.

‘This is refreshing and well-considered,’ said one judge. ‘Architects tend to think innovation means apps … what I like about this is that it takes a fully-integrated view which goes from materiality, to compression structures, to aesthetics and talks about a massive reduction in material cost all the way through.’ Other judges admired the holistic and rigorous approach taken by ZHA and the wider team, the bridge’s reinterpretation of a simple but highly efficient compression system and the project’s ‘ambition to reach beyond what it is now’.

https://www.zaha-hadid.com/2022/06/23/striatus-wins-aj100-innovation-of-the-year/

Photographs by Naaro

20/06/2022

Zaha Hadid Architects wins competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre.

Jinghe New City is growing as a science and technology hub north of Xi’an in China's Shaanxi province.

Echoing the meandering valleys carved by the Jinghe River through the mountains and landscapes of Shaanxi province, the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre’s design intertwines with the city’s existing urban masterplan to connect the new multimedia library on the north side of Jinghe Avenue with the new performing arts theatre and exhibition galleries to the south via elevated courtyards, gardens and paths that span the avenue’s eight lanes of traffic below.

With ramps providing a gateway to the district’s network of elevated public walkways, the centre weaves through the city to link its commercial and residential districts with the parks and river to the south, while also bringing the city’s residents into the heart of the building and providing direct access to the planned metro station.

Organized as a series of flowing volumes, layers and surfaces interconnecting with courtyards and landscapes, the design defines a sequence of interior and exterior cultural and recreational spaces for its community.

The multimedia library’s terraces overlook its full-height atrium with diffusing skylights to provide a variety of public reading zones for individual and collective research. On the southern side of the avenue, the performing arts theatre accommodates 450 people and can be adapted for many types of events. The multi-function hall, studios and galleries are stacked and arranged around the theatre to share public areas designed to enhance accessibility and inter-disciplinary collaboration.

Solar irradiation analysis and responsive site planning optimise the centre’s use of natural ventilation and daylight in the mild temperate climate of Jinghe New City. Incorporating photovoltaic panels for on-site power generation together with rainwater collection, the centre’s construction will prioritise locally-produced materials with a high recycled content to achieve a 3-star certification in China’s Green Building program.

https://www.zaha-hadid.com/2022/06/20/zha-to-design-jinghe-new-city-culture-art-centre/

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