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| Company type | Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Architecture |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Headquarters | London[1] |
Key people | |
Number of employees | 500 |
| Website | zaha-hadid |
Zaha Hadid Architects is a British architecture and design firm founded by Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), with its main office situated in Clerkenwell, London.[3] After the death of "starchitect" Hadid, Patrik Schumacher became head of the firm, yet had to pay for use of the former business partners name[4] at the time with a staff of 400, mostly free labour of interns sourced from teaching positions occupied by senior staff, with 36 projects across 21 countries.[5]
In the early 2020s, the firm designed a virtual city, Liberland Metaverse, based on the Liberland micronation and hosted on the Metaverse platform.[6] The firm had in the 2020s turned to artificial intelligence to help in the design of workplaces; the firm created a dedicated internal unit called ZHAI (Zaha Hadid Analytics + Insights) to address AI utilization, something uncommon among peer firms.[7]
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- ^ "Home". Zaha Hadid Architects. Archived from the original on 9 July 2010. Retrieved 18 October 2018.[self-published source]
- ^ "Judge rules against Patrik Schumacher in Zaha Hadid court case". Dezeen. 24 November 2020.
- ^ Bernstein, Fred A. (November 2016). "In the shadow of Zaha: Patrik Schumacher, right hand of the late starchitect Zaha Hadid, faces the daunting task of leading the firm she built". W. Vol. 45, no. 9. p. 70 – via Gale General OneFile (Wikipedia Library).
- ^ Finney, Alice (11 March 2022). "Zaha Hadid Architects designs virtual Liberland Metaverse city". Dezeen. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
- ^ Nayeri, Farah (15 June 2023). "How A.I. Is Helping Architects Change Workplace Design". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 15 June 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
I've been a workplace designer for the last 24 years," said the architect Arjun Kaicker. "I've seen more change in the last 24 months than in the whole of my career.
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