The Zaha Hadid Foundation is dedicated to preserving, studying and exhibiting the work and artistic legacy of Zaha Hadid.

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ZHF supports the advancement of research into Zaha, her legacy and more generally through the practices of architecture and design.

Research projects

ZHF partners with educational and cultural partners on public programmes that aim to foster learning and enjoyment of Zaha’s life and work.

Learning projects

Tomigaya Building

Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy & International Affairs

London Aquatics Centre

Center for Contemporary Art

The World (89 Degrees)

Museum of the Nineteenth Century

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ZHF is a charitable organisation founded in 2013 by Zaha Hadid.

ZHF and Yale School of Architecture (@yalearchitec

ZHF and Yale School of Architecture (@yalearchitecture) will host a talk by award-winning architect Anupama Kundoo (@anupama_kundoo) on 3 June 2025.

Kundoo will discuss how architectural imagination must transcend design and enter the realms of materials science and economics, where some of the bigger questions reside, and explore the way the time value of money has nudged us towards code-based design. She will also look at the consumption of finite natural resources alongside their impact on human well being and resourcefulness.

You can register for free via the link in our bio.

Photographs © Andreas Deffner and Javier Callejas.

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On this day in 1993, Zaha Hadid's first built proj

On this day in 1993, Zaha Hadid's first built project, Vitra Fire Station opened in Weil am Rheim, Germany.

Commissioned by Rolf Fehlbaum for the Campus of the Vitra Furniture Company, a hotbed of experimentation for new architects and designers at the time, this building by Zaha Hadid Architects took into account the entire edge of the site. It defined the landscape through the corridor-like trajectory of concrete shards that collide to become the fire station’s form.

Find out more about Zaha’s works for Vitra Fire Station on our website, link in bio.

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On this day in 2012, Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev

On this day in 2012, Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center had an official opening ceremony held by the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev. The project is a development of Zaha’s interest in liberation from the plane, which originated in utopian modernism, allowing for the flow of form and people in a building.

It was commissioned to signal cultural change since Azerbaijan’s independence in 1991, which it achieved through its sweeping curves and folds, providing a stark contrast to the rectangular and monolithic Soviet era architecture prevalent in Baku. The project also offers a reimagining of the curves prevalent in Islamic architecture and calligraphy, pointing towards the history of Azerbaijan.

Find out more about Zaha’s works of the Heydar Aliyev Center on our website, link in bio.

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On this day in 2010, Zaha Hadid was named as one o

On this day in 2010, Zaha Hadid was named as one of TIME (@time) 100: The World's Most Influential People!

Photograph courtesy of Simone Cecchetti.

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