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ZHA designs civic spaces that serve as catalysts for the exchange of ideas, integrating with the movement patterns of a city and unifying its institutions. We forge relationships between architecture and the urban landscape to prioritise community needs. Our civic architecture is designed to celebrate public life.
Featured Projects
From Beijing’s largest and most advanced convention and exhibition centre to a public plaza that unites the historically divided city of Nicosia, discover our latest civic projects.
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Mixed Use
01/03
Beijing, China
2021 - 2025
As the cultural, academic and civic centre of China, Beijing has also developed into one of the world’s centres of communication and scientific research.
Photograph by ©K.Arkatites
Civic
02/03
Nicosia, Cyprus
2005 - 2021
Establishing Eleftheria Square as the city’s primary gathering space, ZHA design creates new connections intended to unite a divided capital. Nicosia’s massive Venetian fortifications separate the old city from its modern districts, while the city’s ‘Green Line’ divides the capital into two disparate communities.
Photograph by Piet Niemann
Civic
03/03
Hamburg, Germany
2006 - 2019
Located at Niederhafen on the Elbe River between St. Pauli Landungsbrücken and Baumwall in Hamburg, the upgraded 625m river promenade is integral to the modernisation and reinforcement of the city’s flood protection system.
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Mixed Use
01/03
Beijing, China
2021 - 2025
As the cultural, academic and civic centre of China, Beijing has also developed into one of the world’s centres of communication and scientific research.
Photograph by ©K.Arkatites
Civic
02/03
Nicosia, Cyprus
2005 - 2021
Establishing Eleftheria Square as the city’s primary gathering space, ZHA design creates new connections intended to unite a divided capital. Nicosia’s massive Venetian fortifications separate the old city from its modern districts, while the city’s ‘Green Line’ divides the capital into two disparate communities.
Photograph by Piet Niemann
Civic
03/03
Hamburg, Germany
2006 - 2019
Located at Niederhafen on the Elbe River between St. Pauli Landungsbrücken and Baumwall in Hamburg, the upgraded 625m river promenade is integral to the modernisation and reinforcement of the city’s flood protection system.
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17 projects
Photograph by Hufton + Crow
The new headquarters of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NBRK) in Astana houses the bank’s departments within a single, integrated campus accommodating up to 800 employees and conveys the institution’s longstanding commitment to fiscal stability.
Courtesy of ZHA
Rising from the sloping banks of the Tigris River in Baghdad, the design for the new headquarters of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) conveys the core values at the heart of the institution: Solidity, Stability and Sustainability.
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
As the cultural, academic and civic centre of China, Beijing has also developed into one of the world’s centres of communication and scientific research.
Located in Dongguan within the Greater Bay Area of southern China’s Pearl River estuary, the new Songshan Lake Exhibition and Performance Centre is at the heart of a mixed-use masterplan to revitalize the Yuehe Lake waterfront.
A series of new landscaped parklands, terraces and gardens along the Zhedong Canal within the Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou
Render by X Universe
The international competition to design Malpensa Hospital (Grande Ospedale della Malpensa) has been awarded to ZHA in partnership with RINA (team leader), Studio Plicchi, WSP, STI Engineering and BC Building Consulting.
Photograph by ©Christian Richters/VIEW
Conceived as the end-note to existing factory buildings, the Vitra Fire Station defines rather than occupies space – emerging as a linear, layered series of walls, between which program elements are contained – a representation of ‘movement frozen’ – an ‘alert’ structure, ready to explode into action at any moment.
Photograph by Hufton + Crow
The Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre harnessed the energy of the 2014 Youth Olympic Games to create a project with a lasting legacy that has enhanced and also regenerated its setting; acting as both an anchor and a catalyst for future investment in Nanjing’s Hexi New Town.
Render by X-Universe
Located in the heart of Taipei’s Beimen district—the city’s financial hub—NICFC will house four institutions of the Financial Supervisory Commission that include the stock exchange, futures exchange, depository & clearing corporation.
Photograph by Hélène Binet
The project is designed to serve as an event and exhibition space for the garden festival in Weil am Rhein 1999. The suggested structure does not sit in the landscape as an isolated object, but emerges from the fluid geometry of the surrounding network of paths.
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