Senior Associate
Dipl.Ing., MArch, ARB
London, UK
Nannette Jackowski

Photograph by Frederic Aranda ©

Photograph by Hufton + Crow
Legacy Mode : December 2013
Nannette extensive experience spans a range of typologies, including sports, civic, aviation, and cultural projects. Specialising in fair-faced concrete and detailing, she has been involved in overall design team management, consultant coordination, production of tender and construction documents, and site supervision.
Prior to joining ZHA, Nannette worked at Wirth+Wirth Architekten in Switzerland and Wilkinson Eyre Architects in London.


Photograph by Hufton + Crow
Legacy Mode : December 2013
Featured Project
Designed as a wave on its riverside site, the London Aquatics Centre hosted the aquatics events of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. After the Games, the centre was converted to community use, with reduced seating, teaching 4,000 local children and adults to swim every week.

Photograph by Heiko Stahl
Messehalle 3A
Nannette completed her Diploma in Engineering in Architecture with Distinction from the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences in Germany and her Master of Architecture with Commendation from the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL). She has taught at both UCL and the Architectural Association (AA) as a Unit Master and has led workshops in London, Rio de Janeiro, and South Korea.
Nannette has also designed and curated exhibitions in London, Paris, and São Paulo, and co-authored several publications, including Scavengers & Other Creatures in Promised Lands (AA Publications, London), Ambiguous Spaces (Princeton Architectural Press, New York), and The Hanging Cemetery of Baghdad (Springer Wien New York).
Nannette’s work reflects her interest in crafts, materiality, and culture. Through mixed media representation and expressive drawing, she enjoys exploring architectural narratives that investigate scenarios for the future.
Projects
Explore a selection of projects Nannette 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 Heiko Stahl
Messehalle 3A
Mixed Use
Civic
NürnbergMesse is one of the world’s largest exhibition companies with a portfolio of over 120 national and international exhibitions and congresses that include 35,000 exhibitors and 1.5 million visitors who attend in their own, partner and guest events of the NürnbergMesse Group.

Courtesy of ZHA, render by MIR
Sports
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.

Render by Specto-Digital
Culture
Heritage + Regeneration
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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