Office of Urban Architecture (OMA) It is an international studio that works within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urban planning. AMO, a research and design studio, applies architectural thinking in different fields. OMA is led by eight partners: Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Ellen van Loon, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, Chris van Duyne, Jason Leung and managing partner and architect David Gianotten, and has offices in Rotterdam, New York and Hong Kong. Doha and Australia. OMA-designed buildings currently under construction are the renovated Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) in Berlin, The Factory in Manchester, Hangzhou Prism, the CMG Times Center in Shenzhen, and the Simone Veil Bridge in Bordeaux.
Completed OMA projects include Taipei Center for the Performing Arts (2022), Audrey Irmas Pavilion in Los Angeles (2020), Nora Turnen in Stockholm (2020), Axel Springer Campus in Berlin (2020), MEETT Toulouse Convention and Exhibition Center (2020), Galleria in Gwangyu (2020), WA Paula Pardeep Museum (2020), Nhow Rai Hotel in Amsterdam (2020), Brighton College New Building (2020) and Potato Head Studios in Bali (2020). Previous buildings include the Fondazione Prada in Milan (2018), the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow (2015), Rotterdam (2013), the CCTV headquarters in Beijing (2012), the Casa da Música in Porto (2005), and the Central Library in Seattle (2012). . 2004).
AMO often works in parallel with OMA’s clients to enrich architecture with intelligence from this diverse set of disciplines. This is the case with Prada: AMO’s research into identity, in-store technology and new content production possibilities in fashion helped create OMA’s architectural designs for the new central Prada stores in New York and Los Angeles. In 2004, the AMO was commissioned by the European Union to study its visual communications and designed a colour-coded flag, combining the flags of all member states, which was used during the Austrian presidency of the EU. AMO has worked with Universal Studios, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Heineken, IKEA, Condé Nast, Harvard University and The Hermitage. He produced Countryside: The Future, an investigation on display at the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York; Exhibitions at the Venice Architecture Biennale, including Public Works (2012), Chronochaus (2010), and The Gulf (2006); and for the Prada Foundation, including When Situations Become Typical (2012) and Serial and Portable Classics (2015). The AMO, together with Harvard University, was responsible for the research and organization of the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale and its publication of “Elements”. Other notable projects include Roadmap 2050, a plan for a renewable energy grid across Europe; The Japan Project, a 720-page book on the metabolic architectural movement (Taschen, 2010); And the educational program of the Strelka Institute in Moscow.
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