This is a list of projects, both realised and unrealised, by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid.
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Malevich's Tektonik | 1976-1977 | London | United Kingdom | Conceptual | Fourth-year student design project for a hotel on the Hungerford Bridge over the Thames.[1] | |
Museum of the Nineteenth Century | 1977–1978 | London | United Kingdom | Conceptual | Fifth-year student design thesis; "one of my first ideological and conjectural projects".[2] | |
Dutch Parliament Extension | 1978–1979 | The Hague | The Netherlands | Conceptual | Extension of the Binnenhof complex for parliamentary accommodation. With Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis.[2] | |
Irish Prime Minister's Residence | 1979–1980 | Dublin, Phoenix Park | Ireland | Conceptual | Residence and state function room for the Taoiseach. "The objective was to create a weightlessness, freedom from the stress of public life."[3] | |
59 Eaton Place | 1981–1982 | London | United Kingdom | Not realised. | Renovation of a turn-of-the-century town house.[4] Hadid received the Gold Medal for Architectural Design, British Architecture for this design.[5] | |
Parc de la Villette | 1982–1983 | Paris | France | Not realised. | Design of a park housing public facilities devoted to science and music and located outside central Paris.[4] Bernard Tschumi's project eventually won the competition. | |
The Peak[6] | 1982–1983 | Hong Kong, Victoria Peak | Hong Kong | Not realised. | Proposal to re-design the Peak with a cliff-top resort characterised by a "Suprematist geology".[7] The project won the international competition's first prize, in part because of Hadid's spectacular drawings and paintings, and catapulted Hadid to international fame.[8] It was never executed on account of complications associated with the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong.[9] | |
Grand Buildings | 1985 | London, Trafalgar Square | United Kingdom | Not realised. | Re-design of Trafalgar Square and the buildings surrounding it with towers that "appear to mutate from shards that penetrate the square's surface into a single solid mass".[10] | |
Melbury Court | 1985 | London | United Kingdom | Not realised. | Re-design of a small flat aiming to "explode the rigid box rooms" and featuring furniture on tracks or pivots for flexibility.[11] | |
Hamburg Docklands | 1986 | Hamburg | West Germany | Not realised. | Masterplan for the redevelopment of the harbour area, particularly the Speicherstadt.[12] | |
Kurfürstendamm 70[13] | 1986 | Berlin | East Germany | Not realised. | Office building on a very narrow site (2.7 × 16 metres).[14] | |
Azabu-Jyuban[15] | 1986 | Tokyo, Azabu Juban | Japan | Not realised. | Commercial development on a "narrow site in a canyon of random buildings near the Roppongi district."[16] | |
Tomigaya[17] | 1986 | Tokyo, Azabu Juban | Japan | Not realised. | Small mixed-use project related to the Azabu-Jyuban project, featuring an elevated angular glass pavilion as its centerpiece.[18] | |
West Hollywood Civic Centre | 1987 | Los Angeles, Azabu Juban | United States | Not realised. | Design for a civic centre in a "relatively context-free environment", allowing "objects [to] float and interact in a way that is only possible in wide-open spaces".[19] | |
Al Wahda Sports Centre[20] | 1988 | Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates | Not realised. | ||
Berlin 2000 | 1988 | Berlin | East Germany | Not realised. | Urban masterplan for a Berlin without the Berlin Wall, commissioned a year before the Wall's actual fall.[21] | |
Victoria City Areal[22] | 1988 | Berlin | East Germany | Not realised. | Design for a re-development of a cruciform site on Kurfürstendamm, envisioning a "bent slab" of a hotel hovering above the street.[23] | |
A New Barcelona | 1989 | Barcelona | Spain | Not realised. | Project of a "new urban geometry" for Barcelona based on the diagonal axes of Cerdà's 19th century plan, which are twisted into "skewed, interlocking fragments".[24] | |
Tokyo Forum[25] | 1989 | Tokyo | Japan | Not realised. | Design for a municipal Cultural Centre, based on a "void - a glass container - out of which smaller voids are dramatically hollowed and which house the building's cultural and conference areas.[26] | |
Hafenstrasse development[27] | 1990 | Hamburg, Hafenstraße | Germany | Not realised. | Project of a mixed-use development in two gaps in a row of houses on the Elbe embankment, featuring angular, semi-transparent slabs on pillars.[28] | |
Moonsoon[29] | 1989–1990 | Sapporo | Japan | Built[30] | Interior design of a restaurant with tables like "sharp fragments of ice" and a "plasma of biomorphic sofas".[31] | |
Folly 3[32] | 1990 | Osaka | Japan | Built (Temporary) | Folly in the grounds of the Expo '90 fair, a "series of compressed and fused elements to expand in the landscape and refract pedestrian movement." Hadid describes the sculpture as a "half scale experiment for the Vitra Fire Station".[33] | |
IBA housing | 1986–1993 | Berlin, Stresemannstraße 109. 52°30′23″N 13°22′47″E / 52.5063°N 13.3797°E | East Germany | Built | 3-floor housing development with a wedge-shaped, metal-clad 8-floor tower for the Internationale Bauausstellung.[14] This, together with the Vitra Fire Station, was Hadid's first realised project. Hadid was one of three women commissioned to design social housing complexes, following the efforts of the Feministische Organisation von Planerinnen und Architektinnen to increase female contributions to the IBA program.[34] | |
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Vitra Fire Station | 1994 | Weil am Rhein | West Germany | Built | |
Cardiff Bay Opera House | 1995 | Cardiff, Wales | United Kingdom | Not realised. | ||
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion | 2000 | London | United Kingdom | Built (Temporary) | ||
Hoenheim-North Terminus & Car Park | 2001 | Hoenheim | France | Built | ||
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One-North Masterplan | 2001 | Singapore | Singapore | Ongoing | |
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Bergisel Ski Jump | 2002 | Innsbruck | Austria | Built | |
Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art | 2003 | Cincinnati, Ohio | United States | Built | ||
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Ordrupgaard Museum extension | 2001-2005 | Copenhagen | Denmark | Built | |
BMW Central Building | 2005 | Leipzig | Germany | Built | ||
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Phaeno Science Center | 2005 | Wolfsburg | Germany | Built | |
Szervita Square Tower | 2006 | Budapest | Hungary | Not realised. | ||
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs | 2006-14 | Beirut | Lebanon | Built | ||
Kartal-Pendik Waterfront Regeneration Masterplan | 2006 | Istanbul | Turkey | Not realised. | ||
Maggie's Centres at the Victoria Hospital | 2006 | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | United Kingdom | Built | ||
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Tondonia Winery Pavilion[35] | 2001-2006 | Haro | Spain | Built | |
Eleftheria Square redesign | 2007 | Nicosia | Cyprus | Delayed | The park's construction has been ongoing for over a decade due to various controversies including local criticism of the design, archaeological findings in the building site, EU funding issues, and problems with the various construction firms contracted to build the project.[36] | |
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Hungerburgbahn stations | 2007 | Innsbruck | Austria | Built | |
Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum | 2008 | Vilnius | Lithuania | Not realised. | ||
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Bridge Pavilion | 2008 | Zaragoza | Spain | Built | |
JS Bach Chamber Music Hall | 2009 | Manchester, England | United Kingdom | Built (Temporary) | A temporary structure made for the Manchester International Festival. | |
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CMA CGM Tower | 2005-2010 | Marseille | France | Built | |
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MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts | 1998-2010 | Rome | Italy | Built | Winner of the 2010 Stirling Prize |
Guangzhou Opera House | 2005-2010 | Guangzhou | China | Built | ||
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Evelyn Grace Academy | 2006-2010 | Brixton, London | United Kingdom | Built | Winner of the 2011 Stirling Prize |
Sheikh Zayed Bridge | 2007-2010 | Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates | Built | ||
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London Aquatics Centre | 2008-2011 | London | United Kingdom | Built | |
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Riverside Museum | 2007-2011 | Glasgow, Scotland | United Kingdom | Built | |
Capital Hill Residence | 2011 | Barvikha Forest, Moscow | Russia | Built | This private residence was built for Russian real estate developer Vladislav Doronin and is the only private residence Hadid designed in her lifetime.[37][38] | |
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Central Bank of Iraq Tower | 2011 | Baghdad | Iraq | Under construction/Ongoing | Designed in 2011, Proposed in 2012.
Construction began in 2019, due to be completed by 2023. |
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Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center | 2007-2012 | Baku | Azerbaijan | Built | |
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Broad Art Museum | 2007-2012 | East Lansing, Michigan | United States | Built | Contemporary art museum associated with Michigan State University. |
Pierres Vives Building | 2002-2012 | Montpellier | France | Built | ||
Salerno Maritime Terminal | 1999-2012 | Salerno | Italy | Ongoing | ||
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Galaxy SOHO | 2008-2012 | Beijing | China | Built | A single urban complex building inspired by Chinese courtyards. |
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Innovation Tower | 2009-2013 | Hong Kong | China | Built | |
Serpentine Sackler Gallery | 2013 | London | United Kingdom | Built | ||
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Learning Center, Vienna University of Economics and Business | 2010-2013 | Vienna | Austria | Built | |
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Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park | 2007-2014 | Dongdaemun, Seoul | South Korea | Built | |
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Wangjing SOHO | 2009-2014 | Beijing | China | Built | A complex of office buildings inspired by folding Chinese fans and containing the third-tallest woman-designed building in the world. |
Grace on Coronation | 2014 | Brisbane | Australia | Proposed | 3 residential skyscrapers with civic space within a new riverside park. | |
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Dominion Tower [39] | 2008-2015 | Moscow | Russia | Built | |
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Investcorp Building, St Antony's College | 2013-2015 | Oxford, England | United Kingdom | Built | |
Messner Mountain Museum Corones | 2015 | Kronplatz mountain | Italy | Built | Sixth addition to the Messner Mountain Museum. | |
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Nanjing International Youth Cultural Center | 2015 | Nanjing | China | Built | A pair of skyscrapers constructed in honor of the Youth Olympic Games. |
600 Collins Street | 2015 | Melbourne | Australia | Proposed | [40] | |
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Port Authority Building (Havenhuis) | 2016 | Antwerp | Belgium | Built | Central headquarters of the Antwerp Port Authority. Hadid's extension is built on top of a firehouse designed by 19th-century Dutch architect Emiel Van Averbeke. |
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Napoli Afragola railway station | 2003-2017 | Naples | Italy | Built | Central rail terminal serving the comune of Afragola in the metropolitan area of Naples, Italy. |
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520 West 28th Street | 2017 | New York City | United States | Built | A residential building adjacent to the High Line in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. |
King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC)[41] | 2009-2017 | Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | Built | A 70,000 square meter research center. | |
The Opus, Omniyat[42] | 2012-2019 | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | Ongoing | ||
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Beijing Daxing International Airport[43] | 2014-2019 | Beijing | China | Built | The second airport serving Beijing. |
BEEHA Group headquarters | 2017-2022 | Sharjah | United Arab Emirates | Built |