2025 European Prize for Architecture Winner News<\/p>\n Patrik Schumacher, one of the leading voices and brilliant thinkers in today\u2019s contemporary architecture, has been named the 2025 Laureate of The European Prize for Architecture by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies for his independent, often controversial, critical discourse on the subject of architecture and for the continuation of Zaha Hadid Architecture (ZHA)\u2014the renegade architecture office that he helped found, establish, and lead with Ms. Hadid until her untimely death.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s European Prize for Architecture has been bestowed to two 2025 Laureates: Patrik Schmacher and the Palestinian architect Suad Amiry.<\/p>\n \u201cUnquestionably,\u201d states Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, architecture critic and museum president of The Chicago Athenaeum, \u201cSchumacher inherited one of the highest-profile jobs in global architecture, with real clout to see his ideas and theories put into practice.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLauded as a visionary amongst his international contemporaries, he has also delivered some extremely visionary post-Hadid buildings in his own right,\u201d including the new Chengdu Science Fiction Museum in Chengdu, China (2023); Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre in Zhuhai, China (2023); and the Masary\u010dka Building, Prague, Czech Republic (2023) which have won recent International Architecture Awards from The Chicago Athenaeum.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPossessing a profound knowledge of architectural history and embracing radical theories, he has never merely replicated the status quo of ZHA, but his search for meaningful architecture has been reflected in buildings that to this day, defy stylistic categorizations, are constantly evolving, and always fresh in their approach,\u201d Narkiewicz-Laine continues.<\/p>\n \u201cSchumacher joined ZHA almost 30 years ago and worked alongside Hadid on all the practice\u2019s major projects.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAt the time of Hadid\u2019s death (2016), states Schumacher. \u201cthe practice had 36 projects on-site in 21 countries, we vowed to complete. The first of these, the Salerno Maritime Museum, opened in Italy in June in an emotional ceremony which ZHA staff flew from around the world to attend.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe second project, the Port House in Antwerp, opened in September.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTwo further projects were set to open that year: the King Abdullah Petroleum Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and the Mathematics Gallery in London\u2019s Science Museum,\u201d he recollects.<\/p>\n \u201cThrough three decades, Schumacher was and continues to be highly influenced by Hadid,\u201d asserts Narkiewicz-Laine.<\/p>\n \u201cHowever, he is not just carrying the torch, but also emblazing his own path through design and through his intense, critical eye of the world around himself.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cZaha was very courageous, very driven in terms of wanting to excel,\u201d remembers Schumacher. \u201cOne of Zaha\u2019s greatest achievements was the radical transformation of what it means to design; the fluidity, the curvilinearity, the dynamism that she explored in her paintings.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m an ideas person,\u201d Schumacher goes on, \u201cbut I\u2019m also a person who wants to finish things; to execute and deliver. My role was to know when to stop and turn from exploration into commitment on a project.\u201d Patrick Schumacher and Zaha Hadid: \u201cAt ZHA, we filtered out the best ideas, then we worked together to develop them. It\u2019s a very collaborative, collective process, and it\u2019s the secret of our versatility. Our projects share DNA but are quite diverse\u2014more diverse than you find from other so-called star architects, where there\u2019s more of a sense that one person is the creator. That wasn\u2019t the case then, and it\u2019s not the case now.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPatrik Schumacher is also widely recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders within the fields of architecture, urbanism and design. His research interest focusses on designing and simulating real and virtual environments (and their fusion) with the goal to increase their power to engender and facilitate productive communicative interactions,\u201d Narkiewicz-Laine observes.<\/p>\n \u201cSchumacher is a proponent of parametricism (a term he coined in 2008); an approach that uses algorithms and computer programs to manipulate different variables for design purposes. \u201cIt allows for adaptation late into a project, and results in complex, organic, fluid forms that mimic those seen in nature (and that have long been the hallmark of Zaha Hadid\u2019s designs).\u201d<\/p>\n Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan by Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher with Saffet Kaya Bekiroglu, 2012: \u201cThe respective research agendas are \u2018Agent-based Parametric Semiology\u2019 and \u2018Cyber-Urban Integration\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAccordingly, he is lecturing on the design opportunities and challenges posed by the advent of cyber-space and the collective project of the metaverse.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSchumacher has been publishing theoretical articles in architectural magazines and anthologies since 1996, arguing for an expanded formal and spatial design repertoire as architecture\u2019s response to the new level of societal complexity and dynamism brought on by the socio-economic transition from Fordism to Post-Fordism,\u201d Narkiewicz-Laine affirms.<\/p>\n \u201cSince 2007, he has been promoting Parametricism as epochal style for the 21st-Century.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018Schumacher uses the term \u2018parametricism\u2019 to denote the use in the architecture of advanced computational design techniques.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2008, he launched a manifesto for \u2018parametricism\u2019 at the Venice Biennale of Architecture; and a year later, he published the article \u2018Parametricism: A New Global Style for Architecture and Urban Design\u2019 in the Journal of Architectural Design.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2011, Schumacher published the first volume of The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which he called his \u2018opus magnum,\u2019 offering a \u2018New Framework for Architecture,\u2019 followed by the second volume, subtitled \u2018A New Agenda for Architecture,\u2019 in 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSchumacher is also one of the most outspoken figures in today\u2019s architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe has never shunned away from controversy. He is rightly outspoken. His earnestness is disarming; he speaks energetically and passionately about how access to cities, and their economically dynamic economies, is being hamstrung by high housing prices.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe has immodestly, boldly claimed that \u2018Parametricism,\u2019 his theoretical approach to architecture, should replace modernism and its successors to become the universal style of the 21st-Century.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2015, he gave a speech at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin\u2014an infamous speech expressing global neoliberalism.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLater, in 2016, he gave another speech that nearly caused a riot. That speech was about how to reduce sky-high urban housing prices, where he proposed the abolition of regulation, the elimination of social housing, privatization of all public spaces\u2014including streets\u2014and the selling off most of London\u2019s Hyde Park for development to end the housing crisis in London.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs a former Marxist, Schumacher\u2019s viewpoints have been described as anarcho-capitalism.\u201d \u201cHe has also argued that the government should no longer fund art and architecture schools.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe also states he is being depicted as a kind of villain, a fascist. But he rather surprisingly argues that he roots his contrarian, libertarian views in the motivations of the urbanist mainstream\u2014namely, broad-based prosperity and access to urban economies.\u201d<\/p>\n Opus Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates by Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher, 2019: \u201cIn 2018, he also launched an attack on the 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture stating: \u2018the national pavilions are devoid of architecture all together\u2019; \u201cmeaning that all 63 national pavilions did not show any new architecture, but focused instead on one-liner installations.\u201d<\/p>\n He continues: \u201cInstead of being informed about and confronted with the best and most innovative architectural projects or designs of the last two years from the various countries represented, we had to suffer, once more, the usurpation of \u2018our\u2019 pavilions by curators to disseminate their messages, and present themselves via installations,\u201d he continued.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2023, he again slammed the Venice Architecture Biennale, labeling the event an \u2018anti-architectural biennale\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Venice \u2018Architecture\u2019 Biennale is mislabeled and should stop laying claim to the title of architecture,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cThis title is just generating confusion and disappointment with respect to an event that does not show any architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe drew particular attention to the German pavilion, which he described as full of \u2018piles of construction material\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cStirring up even more, broader dissent, in 2025, he waded into architecture\u2019s culture wars by claiming that \u2018woke virtue signaling\u2019 has destroyed the intellectual rigour of the profession,\u201d continues Narkiewicz-Laine.<\/p>\n \u201dSchumacher made his assertions in a paper titled \u2018The End of Architecture\u2019 in the Kh\u014drein Journal, published by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSchumacher argues that the architecture profession has erased itself,\u201d reports Narkiewicz-Laine. \u201cThe discipline has self-dissolved, eroding its intellectual and professional autonomy under the pressures of anti-capitalist politicization and woke virtue signaling.\u201d<\/p>\n Beijing Daxing International Airport, Beijing, China by Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher, 2019: \u201cArchitecture, formerly an academic, discourse-steered discipline and innovative, theory-led and research-based profession, has contracted back into a craft, uncritically and unambitiously subjecting itself to pre-ordained routines and typologies,\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n \u201cIn effect, the whole apparatus of the academic discipline\u2014architectural university departments, theoretical journals, conferences, biennales, etc.\u2014might as well be shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSchumacher, who teaches at the Architectural Association in London, believes that universities have stopped pushing forward the development of architecture, with actual design projects being replaced by \u2018woke studies\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe added that a lack of innovation meant that the majority of buildings designed today could have been designed 100 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe bulk of architecture designed in 2024 could have been designed in 1974 or indeed in 1924. It is not only stagnant but positively regressive,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n \u201cAll styles, with the exception of parametricism, are retro-styles: minimalism, neo-modernism, neo-rationalism, neo-classicism, neo-historicism, neo-postmodernism.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSchumacher blamed the death of architecture on a combination of a lack of \u2018rigorous critique\u2019 in education, as well as in the architectural press,\u201d states Narkiewicz-Laine.<\/p>\n \u201cIn any event, this apparatus, in its university incarnation, is distracting itself with all manner of woke studies, woke criticism, and woke polemical, artistic-symbolic illustrations standing in for the absent design projects,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n Morpheus Hotel, Macau, China by Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher, 2018: Each year, The European Prize for Architecture is awarded jointly by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design to architects who have made a commitment to forward the principles of European humanism and the art of architecture.<\/p>\n The European Prize for Architecture is not a \u201clifetime of achievement award,\u201d but rather serves as an impetus to support new ideas, to encourage and foster more challenge-making and forward-thinking about buildings and the environment, and to prompt the pushing of the envelope to obtain an even greater, more profound result.<\/p>\n The Prize also honors the commitment and achievements of the best European architects who have determined a more critical, intellectual, and artistic approach to the design of buildings and cities.<\/p>\n The Napoli Afragola Train Station, Naples, Italy by Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher, 2017: Previous Laureates include: Bjarke Ingels (Denmark), Graft Architects (Germany), TYIN Architects (Norway), Marco Casagrande (Finland), Alessandro Mendini (Italy), Santiago Calatrava (Spain\/Switzerland), LAVA Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (Germany), Manuelle Gautrand (France), Sergei Tchoban (Russia\/Germany), Henning Larsen Architects (Denmark), Wolfgang Tschapeller (Austria), Francine Houben and Dick van Gameren of the Dutch firm Mecanoo (The Netherlands), Christoph Ingenhoven (Germany), and Ayse M\u00fccella Yapici, Tayfun Kahraman, and Can Atalay\u2013three imprisoned Turkish architects and champions of human rights.<\/p>\n Last year, the European Prize for Architecture was given to the Austrian architecture office of querkraft architektur.<\/p>\n Born in 1961 in Bonn, Germany, Patrik Schumacher studied philosophy and mathematics at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n In the mid 1980s, he studied architecture in Stuttgart; and in 1987, he continued his architecture studies at London Southbank University while also working in the design studio of Zaha Hadid Architecture primarily on the Vitra Firestation in Weil am Rhein, Germany (1993).<\/p>\n In 1990, he returned to the University of Stuttgart to complete his Diploma in Architecture and then re-joined the office of Zaha Hadid.<\/p>\n In 1999, he completed a PhD at the Institute of Cultural Science, Klagenfurt University.<\/p>\n Since its incorporation in the late 1990s, Schumacher served as a director of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and is credited as a partner and co-author of the practice\u2019s output.<\/p>\n Galaxy SOHO, Beijing, China by Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher, 2012: Since Hadid\u2019s death in April 2016, he has been leading the firm as its sole remaining partner, whilst remaining true to their shared vision.<\/p>\n Schumacher started an academic career in 1993, teaching a post-graduate diploma course in architecture at Kingston University.<\/p>\n From 1994 to 1996 Schumacher was an assistant professor at Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin (TU). He also holds an honorary doctorate as Doctor of Social Science honoris causa from La Universidad Francisco Marroquin.<\/p>\n From 2000 to 2015 he co-taught a regular Masterclass with Zaha Hadid at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna where he continues to lead a PhD research group.<\/p>\n He has been a guest professor at Harvard\u2019s Graduate School of Design in 2013 and 2018.<\/p>\n In 2013, he was appointed as the first John Portman Chair in Architecture at Harvard University\u2019s Graduate School of Design and again in 2018.<\/p>\n Since 2019, he has acted as PhD supervisor at Tongji University\u2019s International PhD program in Shanghai.<\/p>\n Patrik Schumacher is lecturing worldwide and over the last 20 years he has contributed over 120 articles to architectural journals and anthologies.<\/p>\n In 2003, he published the book Digital Hadid\u2014Landscapes in Motion.<\/p>\n In 2007, he invented the phrase \u201cParametricism\u201d and has since published a series of manifestos promoting \u201cParametricism\u201d as the new epochal style for the 21st-Century.<\/p>\n In 2010-2012, he published his two-volume theoretical opus magnum The Autopoiesis of Architecture. His latest book, Tectonism\u2013Architecture for the 21st-Century, was released in 2023.<\/p>\n His current research and design interest is focused on the metaverse and the integration of real and virtual communication spaces.<\/p>\n Honors and awards include:<\/p>\n In 2010, Patrik Schumacher won the Royal Institute of British Architects\u2019 Stirling Prize for excellence in architecture together with Zaha Hadid, for MAXXI, the National Italian Museum for Art and Architecture of the 21st-Century in Rome and the Evelyn Grace Academy in London and also the RIBA Gold Medal in 2016.<\/p>\n ZHA has also been the numerous recipients of The International Architecture Awards from The Chicago Athenaeum.<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2008, he launched a manifesto for \u2018parametricism\u2019 at the Venice Biennale of Architecture; and a year later, he published the article \u2018Parametricism: A New Global Style for Architecture and Urban Design\u2019 in the Journal of Architectural Design.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2011, Schumacher published the first volume of The Audtopoiesis of Architecture, which he called his \u2018opus magnum,\u2019 offering a \u2018New Framework for Architecture,\u2019 followed by the second volume, subtitled \u2018A New Agenda for Architecture,\u2019 in 2012.\u201d Opus Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2019) features the tower\u2019s unique design as a glowing cube with a central void and a reflective glass fa\u00e7ade that adapts to changing light conditions, thereby creating a dynamic interplay with the urban landscape.<\/p>\n Morpheus Hotel, Macau, China (2018) has a seven-story atrium and an exceptionally designed world-first exoskeletal structure. The buildings\u2019 fluid form is derived from China\u2019s rich traditional history of jade carvings. A series of voids is carved through the center of the building, giving it a sculptural appearance and creating an urban window for community interaction. The exoskeleton, consisting of a series of voids and bridges, virtually eliminates the need for interior walls or columns, bridging the hotel towers to create a self-supporting structure that also houses the fa\u00e7ade, restaurants, and a club lounge, contributing to an unparalleled hospitality experience.<\/p>\n King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2017) is a combination of five buildings around a schematic arrangement of hexagonal prismatic honeycomb structures to formulate the entire campus. The building\u2019s honeycomb fa\u00e7ade provides solar shading, reducing heat gain and enhancing energy efficiency.<\/p>\n Beijing Daxing International Airport Beijing, China (2019) features an iconic starfish-shaped design, serving as a gateway to the bustling city of Beijing. It houses the world\u2019s largest single-building terminal, accommodating up to 72 million passengers annually. The building utilizes a series of intersecting steel trusses that support the vast roof structure, allowing for large, open interior spaces and minimizing the need for interior columns.<\/p>\n The Napoli Afragola Train Station, Naples, Italy (2017) connects four high-speed intercity lines, three inter-regional lines, and a local commuter line. It is strategically located to facilitate travel between Bari, Reggio Calabria, and the north of Italy and Europe, serving 15 million residents. The station is designed as an urban public bridge that connects communities on either side of the railway.<\/p>\n \u201cZaha Hadid\u2019s work was always about innovation, and Schumacher is determined to ensure the practice continues to build on this,\u201d states Narkiewicz-Laine.<\/p>\n \u201cJust as when Zaha was around, we are always looking for the next step of development,\u201d Schumacher states.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a strong DNA in this company, a strong set of overall principles, but there\u2019s also a process of maturation and continuous innovation, and that\u2019s something I\u2019m focusing on. I will be the main driver of this innovation, but we\u2019ve also built a research team over the years and have several other major creative figures within the team who will help pull this along,\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n \u201cIf Schumacher\u2019s time working at ZHA has been on a \u2018rollercoaster\u2019,\u201d concludes Narkiewicz-Laine, \u201cthen the future looks set for more twists and turns and Schumacher is fully embracing all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n Patrik Schumacher is the 23rd Laureate of the European Prize for Architecture.<\/p>\n The formal ceremony and gala dinner for what has come to be known throughout the world as Europe\u2019s highest honor for architecture will be held at a Gala Dinner at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece\u2014the birthplace of Western Architecture\u2014on Saturday, September 20, 2025.<\/p>\n Ticket information is available through The European Centre\u2019s Museum in Athens at +30\/210 342 8511 or in the U.S. at +1\/815-777-4444 or by email at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n An exhibition on latest projects by ZHA opens at The European Centre (74 Mitropoleos Street) in Athens that same evening.<\/p>\n Zaha Hadid Architects<\/a><\/p>\n The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies Contemporary Space Athens The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies<\/p>\n The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies (www.europeanarch. eu) is dedicated to public education concerning all aspects of the built environment \u2013 from entire cities to individual buildings \u2013 including the philosophical issues of arts and culture that ultimately give the final shape to design. A high emphasis exists on contemporary values and aesthetics, conservation and sustainability, and the theoretical exploration and advancement of art and design as the highest expression of culture and urbanism.<\/p>\n The Chicago Athenaeum<\/p>\n The Chicago Athenaeum (www.chi-athenaeum.org) is a global nonprofit education and research institute supported by its members. Its mission is to provide public education about the significance of architecture and design and how those disciplines can have a positive effect on the human environment.<\/p>\n 2025 European Prize for Architecture Winner<\/a> \u2013 joint winner Suad Amiry<\/p>\n Previously on e-architect:<\/p>\n European Prize for Architecture Winners News Archive<\/p>\n 2022 European Prize for Architecture<\/a> \u2013 Christoph Ingenhoven of Ingenhoven Architects 2021 European Prize for Architecture<\/a> \u2013 Francine Houben And Dick Van Gameren of Mecanoo Architecten European Prize for Architecture 2020<\/a><\/p>\n European Prize for Architecture 2019<\/a><\/p>\n European Prize for Architecture 2017<\/a><\/p>\n European Prize for Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n European Prize Architecture 2012<\/a><\/p>\n Website: European Prize for Architecture Nominations<\/a><\/p>\n +++<\/p>\n European Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n European Architecture Awards<\/p>\n Europe 40 Under 40 Award Europa Nostra Award<\/a> \u2013 winner news<\/p>\n European Copper Architecture Awards<\/a><\/p>\n European Architecture Competition<\/a> : 2nd European Prize for Urban Public Space met in Barcelona<\/p>\n European Hotel Awards<\/a><\/p>\n Architecture Awards<\/p>\n Stirling Prize<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Patrik](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/patrik-schumacher-zaha-hadid-architecture-e190925-485x400.webp.webp\")
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\u201cThere was an intensity about her, but also an incredible loyalty and warmth. There was no snobbery or pretentiousness. She was an easy communicator and a good friend who was always ready with advice. She was very frank, very entertaining and fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe secret of Zaha\u2019s success was that she didn\u2019t insist on only using her own ideas,\u201d says Schumacher.
\u201cShe was someone who delivered a fantastic new universe of possibility through her radical innovations, but she also allowed younger staff to flourish and exercise their own creativity competitively. That\u2019s the way I came into this.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Patrick](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/patrick-schumacher-zaha-hadid-maxxi-roma-e190925-ca-310x400.webp.webp\")
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\u201cWith this approach, all of the design parameters are interconnected, meaning that you can play with them to see how changes alter the form.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Heydar](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/heydar-aliyev-center-baku-azerbaijan-building-zha-e190925-ib-520x347.webp.webp\")
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\u201cHe advocates for the full decentralization and privatization of architecture, planning, and development, envisioning a competitive landscape of mini-polites organized as corporations vying in the market for communal living.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Opus](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/opus-tower-dubai-building-uae-zha-e190925-lg-520x371.webp.webp\")
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\u201cArchitecture, as an autonomous, theory-led discipline, has ceased to exist,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n![\"Beijing](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/beijing-daxing-international-airport-building-china-e190925-520x345.webp.webp\")
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In 1996 he founded, together with Brett Steele, the Design Research Laboratory (AADRL) at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London where he continues to teach.<\/p>\n
In 2015 he guest-edited the magazine AD \u2013 Parametricism 2.0\u2014setting architecture\u2019s agenda for the 21st-Century with a new emphasis on the societal relevance of \u2018parametricism.\u2019<\/p>\n![\"Patrik](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/patrik-schumacher-architect-london-zha-323x400.jpg\")
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Several key ZHA buildings under Patrik Schumacher\u2019s direction include:<\/p>\n
28 Butlers Court
Sir John Rogerson\u2019s Quay Dublin 2
Ireland D02 R231<\/p>\n
74 Mitropoleos Str.
GR 10563 Athens
Greece<\/p>\n![\"Christoph](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/christoph-ingenhoven-architect-c080922-520x347.jpg\")
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