Board Director
BSc, Dip Arch, ARB, RIBA
London, UK
Jim Heverin
Photograph by Frederic Aranda ©
Jim has directed the development of award-winning projects across various typologies worldwide. These include the BMW Central Building in Germany, winner of the Deutsche Architekturpreis in 2005; the Glasgow Riverside Museum of Transport, which received the Micheletti Award 2011 and the European Museum of the Year Award 2012; and the CMA CGM Tower in Marseille, ZHA’s first completed high-rise. Jim has also spearheaded ZHA’s portfolio in sports architecture with projects like the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympic Games and the Al Janoub Stadium in Qatar, establishing a strong foundation for future work in this sector.
Since 2019, Jim has led ZHA’s Low Carbon Strategy Group, driving the practice’s commitment to sustainable architecture. He collaborates with clients who share these values and encourages the integration of new design tools and technologies, while emphasising the continued centrality of the human in architecture.
Photograph by Hélène Binet
Featured Projects
From a mixed-use tower in Marseille to a 40,000-seat football stadium for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, discover highlights of Jim's notable projects at ZHA.
Photograph by Werner Huthmacher
Jim’s educational journey reflects a strong foundation in architectural principles and design. He lectures regularly at academic and professional institutions, focusing on sustainability, urban design, and ZHA’s design philosophy.
Jim grew up during a vibrant era of popular culture. He sees cities as extensions of this creative spirit and architecture as an integral part of that cultural landscape.
Projects
Explore a selection of projects Jim has contributed to that are currently in development.
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Tall Buildings
01/04
Hong Kong, China
2018
Developed on the world’s most valuable site purchased by Henderson Land, the 36-storey tower's design shelters new civic plazas enveloped by nature, creating an urban oasis in the centre of the city. Accommodating enhanced workplace flexibility, the building’s smart management system creates a contactless pathway for all occupants, eliminating all contact with communal surfaces.
Courtesy of ZHA, render by MIR
Sports
02/04
Stroud, United Kingdom
2016 - TBC
The Eco Park stadium for Forest Green Rovers will be an important addition for the community. The club’s heritage, ambition and vision reflect ZHA’s own, combining the latest material research and construction techniques with new design approaches to build a more ecologically sustainable and inclusive architecture.
Courtesy of ZHA
Tall Buildings
03/04
Baghdad, Iraq
2012 - TBC
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.
Courtesy of ZHA
Mixed Use
04/04
London, United Kingdom
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The design responds to Lambeth Council’s aspirations for a district centre for Vauxhall by creating a vibrant new public square adjacent to the busy rail, underground and bus interchange. The proposal also accommodates TfL’s existing plans to upgrade the traffic gyratory and bus station to provide greater accessibility and safety for all.
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Tall Buildings
01/04
Hong Kong, China
2018
Developed on the world’s most valuable site purchased by Henderson Land, the 36-storey tower's design shelters new civic plazas enveloped by nature, creating an urban oasis in the centre of the city. Accommodating enhanced workplace flexibility, the building’s smart management system creates a contactless pathway for all occupants, eliminating all contact with communal surfaces.
Courtesy of ZHA, render by MIR
Sports
02/04
Stroud, United Kingdom
2016 - TBC
The Eco Park stadium for Forest Green Rovers will be an important addition for the community. The club’s heritage, ambition and vision reflect ZHA’s own, combining the latest material research and construction techniques with new design approaches to build a more ecologically sustainable and inclusive architecture.
Courtesy of ZHA
Tall Buildings
03/04
Baghdad, Iraq
2012 - TBC
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.
Courtesy of ZHA
Mixed Use
04/04
London, United Kingdom
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The design responds to Lambeth Council’s aspirations for a district centre for Vauxhall by creating a vibrant new public square adjacent to the busy rail, underground and bus interchange. The proposal also accommodates TfL’s existing plans to upgrade the traffic gyratory and bus station to provide greater accessibility and safety for all.
Projects
Explore a selection of projects Jim has contributed to since joining ZHA.
Photograph by Hufton + Crow
Legacy Mode : December 2013
Sports
Civic
A concept inspired by the fluid geometry of water in motion, creating spaces and a surrounding environment in sympathy with the river landscape of the Olympic Park. An undulating roof sweeps up from the ground as a wave, enclosing the pools of the Centre with its unifying gesture.
Photograph by Roland Halbe
Sports
ZHA's ski jump on Bergisel mountains contains a ski ramp and sports facilities, as well as public spaces, including a tower-top café and viewing terrace. Rising to a height of almost 50m the structure’s distinctive form and silhouette extends the topography of the ski slopes below into the alpine sky above.
Photograph by Hélène Binet
Exterior View, Dusk
Culture
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.
Photograph by McAteer Photograph / Alan McAteer
Culture
The museum, a sectional extrusion open at both ends, its outline encapsulating a wave or pleat, flows from city to waterfront, symbolising dynamic relationship between Glasgow and the ship-building, seafaring and industrial legacy of the river Clyde. Clear glass facades allow light to flood through the main exhibition space.
Photograph by Hélène Binet
Civic
Culture
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.
Photo by Boys Play Nice
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Offices
The Masaryčka building in Prague is defined by circulation routes which will provide access to new civic spaces for the city.
Photograph by Hélène Binet
Offices
Heritage + Regeneration
The new Port House in Antwerp repurposes, renovates and extends a derelict fire station into a new headquarters for the port – bringing together the port’s 500 staff that previously worked in separate buildings around the city.
Photograph by Hélène Binet
Offices
Our Central Building for BMW constituted a radical reinterpretation of the traditional office – transforming the building and the functions it contains into a more dynamic, engaging ‘nerve-centre’ or ‘communication knot’ – funneling all movement around the manufacturing complex through a space that transcends conventional white collar/blue collar spatial divisions.
Photograph by Luke Hayes
Education
Heritage + Regeneration
The new Investcorp Building for the Middle East Centre provides 1,127m² of additional floor space and a new 117-seat lecture theatre; doubling the space available for the Middle East Centre’s expanding library & archive, and providing optimum conditions to conserve and manage the centre’s collections that were previously stored in the basement of 66 Woodstock Road.
Photograph by Werner Huthmacher
Civic
Domestic in scale but unique in execution, Maggie’s Fife Cancer Centre is set on the edge of a hollow adjacent to Victoria Hospital: a distinctive protected environment providing a haven for cancer patients. Designed to create a transition between the natural and the man-made, it forms a gateway to the surrounding landscape.
Photograph by Hufton + Crow
Offices
Tall Buildings
Rising in a metallic curving arc that slowly lifts and accelerates skywards into the dramatic vertical geometry of its revolutionary forms. With its ultimate coordinate 142.8 metres above the ground, a gateway to the city from both land and sea, an iconic vertical element that interacts with Marseille’s other significant landmarks.
Sports
Inaugurated on 16 May 2019 by hosting the Amir Cup Final of the Qatar Stars national football league, Al Janoub Stadium was the first new stadium commissioned for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar.
Hospitality
Residential
Located in Kodra e Diellit, the fastest-growing district of Tirana, the Nest and Cascades are new additions to the community. Renowned for its colourful post-communist architecture and vibrant café culture, Tirana is the capital of Albania with almost one million residents living within its greater metropolitan region. Progressing rapidly towards European Union membership, the Albanian economy is predicted to grow significantly in the coming years—with Tirana as the centre of its growth.
Residential
Retail
Located in Kodra e Diellit, the fastest-growing district of Tirana, the Nest and Cascades are new additions to the community. Renowned for its colourful post-communist architecture and vibrant café culture, Tirana is the capital of Albania with almost one million residents living within its greater metropolitan region. Progressing rapidly towards European Union membership, the Albanian economy is predicted to grow significantly in the coming years—with Tirana as the centre of its growth.
Products
The new Aeris Collection for Citco is an engineered dialogue between design and structure—a convergence of intuition and calculation.
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