Zaha Hadid Architects
| Company type | Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Architecture |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Headquarters | London |
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. After the death of "starchitect" Hadid, Patrik Schumacher became head of the firm. At the time with a staff of 400, with 36 projects across 21 countries.
In the early 2020s, the firm designed a virtual city, Liberland Metaverse, based on the Liberland micronation and hosted on the Metaverse platform. 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.