Culture
Sparking curiousity
ZHA’s cultural buildings invite people in, fostering dialogue across communities and anchoring their sense of identity and civic pride.
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Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Art Museum, interior, central atrium
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Inspiring future generations
Our buildings enhance the cultural fabric of a city, providing gathering points for people to experience the joy of artistic expression. ZHA’s designs showcase art, and are themselves places of inspiration that fuel the next generation of artists, architects, and performers.
Latest Projects
Discover our latest cultural projects
From a civic art centre that unites three distinct cultural institutions to a science fiction museum whose landscaping contributes to the city’s drainage and flood defence systems, discover our latest cultural projects.
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Culture
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Zhuhai, China
2017 - 2023
Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre
Integrating three distinct cultural institutions for the city, each venue within the Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre incorporates unique characteristics that create differing visitor experiences, yet all are united by a coherent formal and structural logic that spans 170 meters wide from east to west and 270 meters long from north to south.
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Chengdu, China
2022 - 2023
Chengdu Science Fiction Museum
The new Chengdu Science Fiction Museum is situated on Jingrong Lake within the Science & Innovation New City of Chengdu’s Pidu District.
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Grand Theatre, Small Theatre, Art Museum
Culture
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Changsha, China
2017 - 2019
Changsha Meixihu Culture & Arts Centre
The new Culture & Arts Centre by ZHA incorporates a contemporary art museum (MICA), an 1,800-seat theatre with supporting facilities and a multipurpose hall. Its organic architectural language is defined by pedestrian routes that weave through the site to connect with neighbouring streets.
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Culture
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Zhuhai, China
2017 - 2023
Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre
Integrating three distinct cultural institutions for the city, each venue within the Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre incorporates unique characteristics that create differing visitor experiences, yet all are united by a coherent formal and structural logic that spans 170 meters wide from east to west and 270 meters long from north to south.
Courtesy of Arch-Exist
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Culture
02/03
Chengdu, China
2022 - 2023
Chengdu Science Fiction Museum
The new Chengdu Science Fiction Museum is situated on Jingrong Lake within the Science & Innovation New City of Chengdu’s Pidu District.
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Grand Theatre, Small Theatre, Art Museum
Culture
03/03
Changsha, China
2017 - 2019
Changsha Meixihu Culture & Arts Centre
The new Culture & Arts Centre by ZHA incorporates a contemporary art museum (MICA), an 1,800-seat theatre with supporting facilities and a multipurpose hall. Its organic architectural language is defined by pedestrian routes that weave through the site to connect with neighbouring streets.
All our cultural projects
32 projects
Photograph by Roland Halbe
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art
Our free-standing building for the Contemporary Arts Center provides space for temporary exhibitions, installations and performance. Conceived as a dynamic public space, an ‘Urban Carpet’ leads pedestrians into and through the interior space via a gentle slope, which becomes, in turn, wall, ramp, walkway and even an artificial park space.
Photograph by Hélène Binet
Landesgartenschau / Landscape Formation One
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.
Render by Devisual
Z8 Tower
Located in the core of Beijing’s Central Business District (CBD) at the intersection of Jianguo Road and Jinhe East Road, the new Z8 Tower faces the CBD’s central park and is defined by the historic alignment and urbanism of the city’s Chang’an Avenue.
Photograph by Werner Huthmacher
Phaeno Science Centre
Described variously as ‘an architectural adventure playground’ and ‘the magic box’, Phaeno realises our continuing vision of creating ‘complex, dynamic and fluid spaces’ – from the gently undulating artificial hills and valleys created below the main elevated structure, to the crater-like museum floor, naturally lit spaces and accessible funnels within.
Qiantang Bay Cultural District
A series of new landscaped parklands, terraces and gardens along the Zhedong Canal within the Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou
Photograph by ©Christian Richters/VIEW
Vitra Fire Station
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 Hélène Binet
Exterior View, Dusk
MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts
MAXXI supercedes the notion of the museum as ‘object’ or – presenting a field of buildings accessible to all, with no firm boundary between what is ‘within’ and what is ‘without’. Central to this new reality are confluent lines – walls intersecting and separating to create interior and exterior spaces.
Courtesy of ZHA
River View
Alisher Navoi Institute
The Alisher Navoi International Scientific Research Centre will incorporate the Navoi State Museum of Literature, Auditorium, International Research Centre and School.
Nikola Tesla Museum
The new Nikola Tesla Museum renovates Belgrade’s historic Milan Vapa Paper Mill into a cultural destination celebrating Tesla’s legacy while preserving the city’s architectural heritage and creating a variety of new public spaces for local residents and visitors.
Render by Specto-Digital
Asaan Museum
Meaning ‘inheritance passed down through generations’, Asaan will be an institution dedicated to preserving and celebrating this rich heritage, in addition to promoting creativity and knowledge sharing.
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