Milan, Italy
20th April 2026 - 26th April 2026
ZHA x Audi
Origin
A collaboration between Audi and ZHA, Origin was conceived an immersive installation serving as a portal to an investigation of the principles defining Audi's new design philosophy: clarity, technicality, intelligence, and emotion.
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A collaboration between Audi and ZHA, Origin was conceived an immersive installation serving as a portal to an investigation of the principles defining Audi's new design philosophy: clarity, technicality, intelligence, and emotion.
Installed within courtyard of the Portrait Milano hotel for the FuoriSalone during Milan Design Week, Origin’s design was refined through precision engineering, employing advanced digital design and fabrication to achieve technological rigour and spatial clarity.
Creating a powerful juxtaposition within the courtyard of the the 16th century Archbishop's seminary, the installation creates a transformative pavilion conveying the four principles of Audi’s new design philosophy.
Origin’s restorative interior shelters visitors from external stimuli, allowing their senses to settle. In this moment of stillness, a choreographed sequence of light and ambient sound builds rhythmically, rising to a brief crescendo before dissolving into silence, deepening the experiential journey.
The installation’s matte metallic envelope subtly reflects its historical context, establishing a dialogue between the pavilion’s contemporary technology and the rich cultural heritage of its context.
Installations & pavilions
ZHA's installations and pavilions utilises our cutting-edge research to push material capability to its full potential. At the forefront of innovation, we explore the limits and possibilities of contemporary construction methods.
Photograph by Alessandra Chemollo
Venice Biennale, May 2021
Installations + Pavilions
The ‘High-performing Urban Ecologies' installation by ZHA responds to the ‘Resilient Communities’ theme of this year’s Italian Pavilion curated by Alessandro Melis for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021.
Installations + Pavilions
Samsung collaborated with ZHA and digital art and design collective Universal Everything, to present ‘Unconfined’, an installation showcasing the story of the Galaxy S8 that centres on the unity of design, technology and experience. Visitors journey through an immersive environment inspired by the new device, creating digital installations that bring to life the Galaxy design philosophy.
Photograph by Paul Warchol
Retail
Il Makiage has launched a collection with a pavilion at 490 Broadway by ZHA that is informed by the label’s characteristically bold graphic identity.
Image © ZHA, Refik Anadol Studio, with OpenAI DALL-E 2
Virtual Spaces
Installations + Pavilions
Exhibitions
Architecting the Metaverse’ is an immersive art project at the intersection of architecture, art, technology, and artificial intelligence (AI). It is the result of a 6-month collaboration between Refik Anadol Studio (RAS) and ZHA.
Courtesy of Studio Naaro
Striatus 3D Printed Concrete Bridge
Installations + Pavilions
Striatus is an arched masonry footbridge composed of 3D-printed concrete blocks assembled without mortar or reinforcement. The first of its kind, the project is a collaboration between the Block Research Group (BRG) at ETH Zurich and ZHA Computation and Design Group (ZHACODE), in collaboration with incremental3D (in3D), made possible by Holcim.
Photograph by Hélène Binet
Installations + Pavilions
A new bottle for an old wine: a design to safeguard one of López De Heredia’s treasures. Originally commissioned as a new pavilion to contain an older pavilion restored from the early 20th century, this became a bridge between the past, present and future evolution of its world-famous bodegas.
Photograph by Luke Hayes
Thallus White in The City 4-9 April 2017
Installations + Pavilions
Named after the Greek word for flora that has no differentiation between stem and leaf, Thallus is an experimental structure investigating form and pattern generated by advanced manufacturing and computational methods.
Photograph by Juan Pablo Allegre
Installations + Pavilions
KnitCandela is a thin, sinuous concrete shell built on ultra-lightweight knitted formwork that was carried to Mexico from Switzerland in a suitcase.
Courtesy of ZHA
Installations + Pavilions
A temporary pavilion designed and erected in Chicago’s Millennium Park as part of the Burnham Plan celebrations – reflecting the Chicago’s long tradition for embracing cutting edge architecture in an in intricate but fluid structure that incorporates hidden traces of Burnham and Bennett’s original 1909 plans to redevelop the city.
Photograph by Joel Chester Fildes
Manchester International Festival July 2009
Installations + Pavilions
A unique chamber music hall specially designed to house solo performances of J S Bach works – enhancing the multiplicity of his music by using a single, continuous ribbon of fabric which continuously changes, stretches, compresses and moves around itself to cocoon both performers and audience within an intimate fluid space.
Photograph by Virgile Simon Bertrand
Hong Kong : 27 February - 5 April 2008
Installations + Pavilions
A unique sculptural pavilion created as an exhibition/event space for Chanel – inspired by the brand’s distinctive layering of exquisite details within an elegant, cohesive whole – created as a series of continuous arches, sequencing towards a central courtyard – the entire structure ‘flooded’ by through translucent walls and ceilings.
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