Commissioned by the Nansha District Bureau of Culture & Sports following the 2023 international design competition, the centre has been designed by Zaha Hadid Architects in collaboration with the Guangdong Architectural Design & Research Institute.
Project name
Greater Bay Area Sports Centre
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Principal architect
Patrik Schumacher
Design team
Teodor Andonov, Shajay Bhooshan, Taizhong Chen, Heba Eiz,Vegard Elseth, Matthew Gabe, Sonia Magdziarz, Ling Mao, Keerti Manney, Xin Swift, Ke Yang, Chris Whiteside, Svenja Siever, Tul Srisompun
Collaborators
Guangzhou Architectural Design & Research Institute (GDAD), China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute (CSWADI)
Structural engineer
GDAD, CSWADI
Environmental & MEP
GDAD, CSWADI
Lighting
Lichtvision Design & Tsinghua Urban Planning and Design Institute (THUPDI)
Construction
China Construction Eighth Engineering Division & China Construction Third Engineering Division Façade Engineering: RFR(Rice Francis Ritchie sarl) Engineers, GDAD, CSWADI
Supervision
Guangzhou Runhe Consulting Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Pearl River Supervision and Consulting Group, Guangzhou Construction Engineering Supervision Co.
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Sports Architecture
Informed by the rolling hills intersected with river valleys that wind through the undulating cityscape of Tbilisi, Cityzen Tower’s design by Zaha Hadid Architects echoes its context at the intersection of the city’s urbanism and its natural environments.
Project name
Cityzen Tower
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Location
Tbilisi, Georgia
Principal architect
Patrik Schumacher
Design team
Alicia Hidalgo Lopez, Armando Bussey, Besan Abudayah, Bowen Miao, Catherine McCann, Charles Walker, Ignacio Fernandez De Castro, Jessica Wang, Jose Pareja Gomez, Kutbuddin Nadiadi, Laizhen Wu, Manuela Gatto, Maria Avrami, Massimo Napoleoni, Panos Ioakim, Takehiko Iseki, Thomas Bagnoli, Yevgeniya Pozigun
Typology
Commercial › Mixed-use Development
Reggio Calabria’s mayor, Giuseppe Falcomatà and Zaha Hadid Architects’ director Filippo Innocenti have laid the foundation stone of the new Centre of Mediterranean Culture, marking the start of the project’s construction.
Project name
Centre of Mediterranean Culture
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Location
Reggio Calabria, Italy
Principal architect
Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher
Design team
Abdel Chehab, Anja Simons, Davide Del Giudice, Gabriele di Giovanni, Hangyul Jeong, Luciano Letteriello, Mario Mattia, Michele Salvi, Marina Martinez, Roberto Vangeli, Stefano Rocchetti, Serena Pietrantoni, Vincenzo Barillari
Collaborators
Artuso Architetti Associati
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Cultural Center
The new Capital International Exhibition & Convention Center (CIECC) by Zaha Hadid Architects is Beijing’s largest and most advanced exhibition and convention venue; expanding the city’s existing facility to over 611,000 sq. m with nine new exhibition halls as well as three new reception halls, a conference centre for 9,000 delegates and a hotel wi...
Project name
Capital International Exhibition & Convention Centre (CIECC)
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Photography
Virgile Simon Bertrand
Principal architect
Patrik Schumacher
Design team
Satoshi Ohashi, Paulo Flores, Yang Jingwen, Di Ding, Cristiano Ceccato, Martin Pfleger, Clara Martins, Leo Alves, I-Chun Lin, Eduardo Camarena, Juan Montiel, Yihui Wu, Cristina Barrios Cabrera, Chen Lian, Dilara Yurttas, Felix Amiss, Gaoqi Lou, Hao Yang, Haotian Man, Huiyuan Li, Shuaiwei Li, John Kanakas, Kate Hunter, Nessma Al Ghoussein, Qiren Lu, Thomas Bagnoli, Meysam Ehsanian, Yushan Chen, Zhe Zhong, Xinying Zhang
Structural engineer
Beijing Institute of Architectural Design
Environmental & MEP
Beijing Institute of Architectural Design
Lighting
Toryo International Lighting Design Center
Construction
China Construction Second Engineering Bureau LTD. and Beijing Construction Engineering Group
Typology
Cultural › Exhibition
In designing the hotel conversion of the Palazzo Capponi, on the Via di Ripetta, a branch of the city’s Sistine Trident radiating from the Piazza del Popolo, Hadid and her team at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) led by Paola Cattarin, started where Baroque architects ended their palimpsest—at the vaulted ceilings.
Project name
Romeo Roma Hotel
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Photography
Chris Dalton, Jacopo Spilimbergo, Roberta Vassallo
Principal architect
Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher
Design team
Christos Sazos, Daniel Fiser, Grace Chung, John Morrison, Konstantinos Psomas, Kyle Dunnington, Ludovico Lombardi, Melodie Leung, Monir Karimi Kakhki, Natassa Lianou, Ovidiu Mihutescu, Pasquale Lorusso, Peter Logan, Sofia Papageorgiou, Thomas Sonder
Structural engineer
Studio Beta srl
Environmental & MEP
Spring srl
Lighting
Corte Gherardi snc
Construction
Mannelli Costruzioni srl, Ga .Re .Co. srl
Client
Romeo Gestioni spa
Typology
Hospitality › Hotel
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has partnered with Gencork to create a unique cork wall panel system that combines all the benefits and natural properties of cork’s remarkable materiality with ZHA’s advanced computational design.
Written by
Zaha Hadid Architects
The Shenzhen Institute of Financial Technology Tower designed by Zaha Hadid Architects will accommodate the institute’s ongoing expansion to serve China’s fintech industry which is anticipated to grow at almost 20% each year throughout the coming decade.
Project name
Shenzhen Institute of Financial Technology
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Principal architect
Patrik Schumacher
Design team
raklis Kourounis, Biagio Amodio, Maria Vergopoulou, Sharan Sundar, Beatrice Cordella, Nessma Al Ghoussein, Cristina Barrios Cabrera, Samantha Pavic
Collaborators
CSWADI (SD – PD Stage) / CABR (CD Stage)
Structural engineer
CSWADI (SD – PD Stage) / CABR (CD Stage)
Environmental & MEP
CSWADI (SD – PD Stage) / CABR (CD Stage)
Construction
China Construction Second Engineering Bureau
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Commercial › Office Building
The world’s longest driverless transit system, the Riyadh Metro network spans over 176 kilometres across 6 lines and 85 stations. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station serves as the key interchange on the network.
Project name
King Abdullah Financial District Metro Station
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Principal architect
Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher
Design team
Marco Amoroso, Vincenzo Caputo, Abdel Halim Chehab, Lee Cubeddu, Rawan Al-Derjem, Domenico Di Francesco, David Fogliano, Manuele Gaioni, Marko Gligorov, Subharthi Guha, Alexandros Kallegias, Lisa Kinnerud, Alexandre Kuroda, Stefano Iacopini, Carolina López-Blanco, Jamie Mann, Mohammadali Mirzaei, Arian Hakimi Nejad, David Wolthers, Nicola McConnell, Mario Mattia, Massimo Napoleoni, Niki Okala, Carlos Parraga- Botero, Sohith Perera, Izis Salvador Pinto, Carine Posner, Neil Rigden, Paola Salcedo, Nima Shoja, Thomas Sonder, Vincenzo Reale, Kate Revyakina, Roberto Vangeli, Seungho Yeo
Civil engineer
BuroHappold
Structural engineer
BuroHappold
Environmental & MEP
Zamil
Construction
BACS Consortium
Typology
Transportation › Metro Station
