Pandemic blamed as Zaha Hadid calls time on historic Bowling Green Lane home

By Elizabeth Hopkirk2021-07-15T05:00:00

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Practice leaves Victorian classrooms after nearly 40 years for nearby Goswell Road

Zaha Hadid Architects is leaving its office in Clerkenwell’s Bowling Green Lane after nearly four decades because the pandemic has forced a rethink of how the practice operates.

It said the classroom accommodation of the grade II listed Victorian former school it has occupied for 38 years was too inflexible for the needs of the practice as it plans for post-covid operations.

It is currently reconfiguring the seven storeys of 101 Goswell Road, a former garment factory half a mile away which it has occupied since 2012, along with another former industrial space, Compton Court, to which it is linked by a courtyard. Together the buildings will allow all ZHA staff to work in one place.

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