Zaha Hadid Architects withdraws from Architects Declare

 UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has withdrawn from climate action network Architects Declare a day after fellow founding signatory Foster + Partners left the group. Zaha Hadid Architects made the decision to follow Foster + Partners in leaving Architects Declare, which was founded in 2019, due to "a significant difference of opinion" with the steering group that leads it.

"Regrettably, we are withdrawing from Architects Declare," said a statement from Zaha Hadid Architects. As a founding signatory, we agreed to continue and accelerate our work towards progressive change in our built environment," it continued. However, today we need to recognise that we have a significant difference of opinion with the Architects Declare steering group on how positive change can be delivered."

Steering group determined "absolute interpretation of the coalition's commitments. The decision to leave the climate change network follows growing tension between the studio and Architects Declare's steering group, which is made up of 11 architects, engineers and communication professionals working for UK architecture studios.

Last week, in response to comments made by how much do computer engineers make Architects' principal Patrik Schumacher, Architects Declare's steering group told Dezeen that its aims were being "undermined by a few practices" that were "clearly contravening" their climate pledges.