Zaha Hadid Architects expand into Middle East with office in Dubai Design District
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) have today (7 November) opened a new office within the Dubai Design District in the United Arab Emirates.
The practice have 30 years experience working on 16 projects in the Middle East and North Africa – recently including a masterplan for Lusail City in Qatar and a cultural and research complex in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia – and have opened the new office in response to “solid growth in demand from new and existing clients across the region.”
In a statement, the firm said: “ZHA is working with the many diverse histories and cultures of the region to address important issues in a meaningful way – contributing to the development of more ecologically sustainable and integrated built environments.
“[The new office] will provide even greater levels of assistance, coordination and communication with our increasing client base throughout the Middle East.”
“There's a strong collective leadership which is the same as it was and that the way we develop projects – which was always collaborative – is continuing,” he said.
The Dubai Design District was commissioned by the UAE prime minister Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid al Maktoum as a purpose-built community to nurture emerging local design talent and provide a base for international architects working in the region. In addition to ZHA, architecture firms Foster + Partners, Benoy and Santiago Calatrava have also opened offices there.
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