Rem Koolhaas   Italy   In these times of pandemic and social distancing, technological tools have tried to address the restrictions imposed on in-person activities through digital alternatives that can help prevent our lives from stagnating altogether. In a locked-down Mil

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Since their first collaboration in 2004, every year AMO – the research and design branch of the office founded by Rem Koolhaas – designs the sets for the runway shows of the Milanese luxury fashion house Prada. Proposing issues like the relationship

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Belgium   The use of subtraction as a strategy to order, connect, and generate new possibilities in the spaces, is reflected in the outdoor corridor that divides the factory into two parts: a new connection between the museum and the showroom, and the emptying

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   France   The proposal combines two sides, one that respects the image of the original tower, subtly renewed, and another that plays with curved bronze meshes sandwiched between glass plates. This arrangement generates classic and contemporary atmospheres... [

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   Two possible design approaches, the North-South Axis and Stitch concepts, propose revitalizing the Anacostia River with a variety of amenities and public spaces that can offer a new gate of entrance to Washington D.C... [+]

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   11th Street Bridge Park – the Anacostia Crossing – will connect green spaces and services on both sides of the river, turning the X-shaped bridge into a city landmark, offering new views and a variety of cultural, leisure, and sports activities... [+

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   The infrastructure is a centralized facility that proposes a new model for the relationship between food producers and consumers through a series of interwoven program areas, rotated at different angles with regards to the urban grid... [+]

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   To prevent catastrophes with such devastating effects as hurricane Sandy, the project proposes a comprehensive strategy dealing with urban, landscape, and political issues and based on four concepts: resist, delay, store, and discharge... [+]

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   The skyscraper is designed as three stacked cubes connected by curved planes that rotate gradually to form a 45-degree angle with regards to Manhattan’s grid, engaging in dialogue with neighbor buildings like the Seagram or the Lever House... [+]

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   The stepped form, possible thanks to a structural facade, is a response to its context: on a narrow plot with adjacent buildings, the tower stretches skywards and to the east, expanding the floor area and preserving the views over Madison Square Park

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   Located in the heart of downtown Santa Monica, the mixed-use complex achieves a strong interaction between interior program and exterior environment with a stepped building that creates terraces for a broad range of activities... [+]

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   Located between Collins Avenue and Indian Creek, with direct views of the Atlantic Ocean, the complex includes three buildings: an arts center, a market, and a parking garage, which are interconnected and articulated through the public space.  The ar

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   India   Flanked by a publicly accessible garden, stepped to allow for different degrees of privacy and sculpture display, the new wing lifts itself up from the site to create a direct visual connection between the existing museum and the city and gardens.

Amidst the tide of challenges faced by the fashion industry under pandemic restrictions, OMA’s laboratory of ideas (AMO) took on the complex task of rethinking Bershka’s retail strategy. The first contact took place with the Bershka Flagship Milano,

The Italian fashion house Prada presented its SS 2022 Menswear collection in a show with a catwalk designed by OMA / AMO. An imagined summer escape ended in an open-air space where nature and artifact interact, with a meandering red tunnel that model

The Spaces   Emma Tucker   In the absence of being able to go and see its F/W 2021 menswear show in Milan, Prada is tantalising people’s sense of touch with what it describes as an ‘inviting and seductive’ series of spaces. Faux fur walls and cool marble and plaster floors cre

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   Jacob will never forget the day Rem Koolhaas introduced him to the pleasures of meat. The son of the director of the Seattle Public Library had decided to give up his vegetarian diet and the architect treated him to dinner at Wild Ginger, ordering al

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   With the exhibition and book Content, Rem Koolhaas strikes again. The provocative Dutch architect sums up the past seven years of his career with a show in Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie that scatters 300 objects and models in the interior of Mies van

Content, Taschen   Luis Fernández-Galiano   I'am glad it’s all over. This joint venture between Rem and Jacques was doomed from the start. — You mean to say you were hoping it would fail. Mixing fire and water never appealed to you. — On the contrary! Rem thought that many were waiting to be d

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   And New York in the distance. The results of the Ground Zero competition were announced on 27 February, and the next day The New York Times graciously divided its front page between a picture of an ecstatic Daniel Libeskind beside the model of his pr

Luis Fernández-Galiano   This monograph was begun twenty years ago, started to take shape ten years later, and finally comes to light now, when all of us involved in it have changed, and so has the world. An explanation of the delay is in order, along with some information o

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   Porto now has an icon. The Casa da Música of Rem Koolhaas will soon appear in tourist brochures and attract the usual flux of architecture-savvy visitors. The enthusiasm for emblematic constructions that the ‘Guggenheim effect’ has awakened in polit

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   This enormous book is small when compared to the ambition of its author. Its nearly three kilograms will sprain the reader’s wrist, and its 1,400 pages of mental, graphic, and typographic torment will tax his patience, but forms and ideas which are s

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The late Koolhaas is not a Koolhaas lite. Having turned seventy, and forty years after founding his Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975, the Dutch architect and writer has given his vital and intellectual path a new turn. Architecture, howev

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   The new art museums of Koolhaas in Las Vegas eloquently express the commercialization and trivialization of high culture in the contemporary world.

Arquitectura Viva 74   Luis Fernández-Galiano   These are times of toxic talent and bitter heroes. The French novelist Michel Houellebecq and the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas fall under this category of mediatic figures who practice social criticism through extreme integration in a landscape they

Arquitectura Viva 47   Luis Fernández-Galiano   Jiang Zemin was cheered on Wall Street and jeered at Harvard University. But the New York Stock Exchange had that same week suffered its greatest shock of the past ten years on account of the drop of share prices in the old British colony of Hong Kon

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   The cynical lucidity of Rem Koolhaas is fascinating and perverse. An apologist of urban chaos and metropolitan congestion, this Dutchman born in Rotterdam in 1944 has placed a sharp pupil and a muscular mind at the service of a cruel mission. The Lil