The Architecture Foundation's new building will be a purpose-built venue for exhibiting, debating and enjoying architecture. Funded by Land Securities, it is located in Southwark Street, in Bankside, London. It is designed by Zaha Hadid, winner of the Pritzker Prize, and will be her first public building in London.

Responding to the brief's request for a building "with the qualities of a billboard and a chapel", it combines a powerful relationship to the street with more contemplative exhibition spaces inside. Hadid won the commission following a competition that attracted over 200 entries.

The building will include exhibition space, space for events, a cafe/bar and offices for the AF. It is conceived as a centre of energy and a social place, as well as an exhibition space. Once installed in the new building, the AF will continue to deliver off-site projects and events in various locations as well as a rich programme in the new building.

A planning application was submitted in July 2006. The building is due to open to the public in 2008.