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OMA is a leading international partnership practicing
architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA's buildings and
masterplans around the world insist on intelligent forms while
inventing new possibilities for content and everyday use. OMA is
led by seven partners - Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de
Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, David Gianotten and Managing
Partner, Victor van der Chijs - and sustains an international
practice with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, and soon Doha.
OMA-designed buildings currently under construction include the
Taipei Performing Arts Centre; the Television Cultural Centre in
Beijing; Shenzhen Stock Exchange - China's equivalent of the NASDAQ
exchange for hi-tech industries; three buildings in Doha, Qatar;
and De Rotterdam, the largest building in the Netherlands.
OMA's recently completed projects include the headquarters
for China Central Television - a tower reinvented as a
loop; New Court, the headquarters for Rothschild bank in
London; Milstein Hall, an extension to the Architecture, Art, and
Planning school at Cornell; Maggie's Centre, a cancer care centre
in Glasgow (all 2011); Wyly Theatre in Dallas (with REX, 2009); and
Prada Transformer, a rotating multi-use pavilion in Seoul (2009).
Other acclaimed buildings include the Casa da Música in Porto
(2005); the Seattle Central Library (2004); the Netherlands Embassy
in Berlin (2003); the IIT Campus Center in Chicago (2003); and the
Prada Epicenter in New York (2001). See a Google Map of OMA's completed buildings.
The work of Rem Koolhaas and OMA has won several international
awards including the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000, the
Praemium Imperiale (Japan) in 2003, the RIBA Gold Medal (UK) in
2004, the Mies van der Rohe - European Union Prize for Contemporary
Architecture (2005) and the Golden Lion for Lifetime
Achievement at the 2010 Venice Biennale.
The counterpart to OMA's architectural practice is AMO, a
research studio based in Rotterdam. While OMA remains dedicated to
the realization of buildings and masterplans, AMO operates in areas
beyond the traditional boundaries of architecture, including media,
politics, sociology, renewable energy, technology, fashion,
curating, publishing, and graphic design.
AMO often works in parallel with OMA's clients to fertilize
architecture with intelligence from this array of disciplines. This
is the case with Prada: AMO's research into identity, in-store
technology, and new possibilities of content-production in fashion
helped generate OMA's architectural designs for new Prada epicenter
stores in New York and Los Angeles. In 2004, AMO was commissioned
by the European Union to study its visual communication, and
designed a coloured "barcode" flag - combining the flags of all
member states - that was used during the Austrian presidency of the
EU.
AMO has worked with Universal Studios, Amsterdam's Schiphol
airport, Heineken, Ikea, Condé Nast and Harvard University,
produced exhibitions at the Venice Biennale (on the Hermitage
museum in St. Petersburg) and Venice Architecture Biennale (on
preservation, and on the development of the Gulf), and guest-edited
issues of the magazines Wired and Domus. Recent
projects include a plan for a Europe-wide renewable energy grid, a
720-page book on the Metabolism architecture movement (Project
Japan, Taschen, 2010) and the educational program of Strelka,
a new postgraduate school in Moscow.
Selection of current OMA and AMO projects:
ROTTERDAM office
Netherlands:
Coolsingel,
Rotterdam
De
Rotterdam
Stadskantoor,
Rotterdam
Europe:
Bibliothèque Municipales à Vocation Régionale, Caen
Parc des
Expositions, Toulouse
Il
Fondaco dei Tedeschi, Venice
Commonwealth
Institute, London
Cordoba
Congress Centre, Cordoba
Fondazione
Prada, Milan
Bryghus
Projektet, Copenhagen
Middle East:
Education City Central Library and headquarters, Doha
HIA Airport City, Doha
AMO:
Strelka Institute
for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow
Project
Japan: Metabolism Talks...
Prada
catwalk shows, Milan and Paris
NEW YORK office
Musée
national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec
Marina Abramovic Institute, Hudson NY
Manila Art Foundation
BEIJING office
CCTV: China Central
Television Headquarters, Beijing
TVCC: Television Cultural Center,
Beijing
HONG KONG office
Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Taipei Performing Arts Centre
Chu Hai College
OMA History
OMA was founded in 1975 by Rem Koolhaas, Elia and Zoe
Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp as a collaborative office
practicing architecture and urbanism. The office gained renown
through a series of groundbreaking entries in major competitions:
Dutch Parliament Extension (1978), Koepel Panopticon Prison (1980),
Parc de la Villette, Paris (1982), ZKM, Karlsruhe (1989), Tres
Grande Bibliotheque and Two Libraries for Jussieu University, Paris
(1993). During these formative years OMA also realized ambitious
projects, ranging from private residences to large scale urban
plans: Villa dall'Ava, Paris (1991), Nexus Housing, Fukuoka, Japan
(1991), the Kunsthal, Rotterdam (1992). In 1994 OMA completed
Euralille, a 70-hectare business and civic center in northern
France comprising the European hub for high-speed rail.
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