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OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) is an international architectural firm that designs buildings and masterplans. OMA recently completed the Simone Veil Bridge in Bordeaux, France.

OMA is an international practice operating within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism. AMO, a research and design studio, applies architectural thinking to domains beyond.

OMA is led by eight partners – Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, Chris van Duijn, Jason Long, and Managing Partner-Architect David Gianotten – and maintains offices in Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong, Beijing, Doha, Dubai and Sydney.

OMA-designed buildings currently under construction include Taipei Performing Arts Centre, the renovation of Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) in Berlin and The Factory in Manchester.

OMA’s completed projects include the Axel Springer Campus in Berlin (2020), Prince Plaza in Shenzhen (2020), RAI NHow Hotel in Amsterdam (2020), a new building for Brighton College (2020), Potato Head Studios (2020), Galleria in Gwanggyo (2020), the New Museum for Western Australia in Perth (2019), The Avery in San Francisco (2019), 121 East 22nd in New York (2019), Sotheby’s Headquarters in New York (2019), Norra Tornen in Stockholm (2018), Fondazione Prada (2018), BLOX / DAC in Copenhagen (2018), Fondation d'Entreprise Galeries Lafayette in Paris (2018), Qatar National Library (2018), Rijnstraat 8 (2017), Lab City CentraleSupélec in Saclay (2017), Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville (2016), Il Fondaco dei Tedeschi (2016), the Faena District in Miami (2016), Pierre Lassonde Pavilion, a new building for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (2016), Timmerhuis, the new home for Rotterdam’s municipal offices (2015), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow (2015), G-Star Headquarters in Amsterdam (2014), Shenzhen Stock Exchange (2013), De Rotterdam, a large mixed-use tower in the Netherlands (2013), CCTV Headquarters in Beijing (2012), New Court, the headquarters for Rothschild Bank in London (2011), Earlier buildings include Casa da Música in Porto (2005), Seattle Central Library (2004), Netherlands Embassy in Berlin.

Apollolaan 171 – Amsterdam’s latest high-end office building – opens for business today. Designed by OMA / David Gianotten on behalf of Kroonenberg Groep, the office architecture is defined by transparency and tactility, and responds to Berlage’s architecture from the early twentieth century in the neighborhood. 

Lesley Bamberger, CEO Kroonenberg Groep: “At this prominent location on Apollolaan, we have together created a beautiful office building that makes a significant impact on the entire neighborhood. The design is tailored to its surroundings and provides a very natural integration. We take pride in this wonderful addition to the city.”

David Gianotten, OMA Managing Partner – Architect: “Around Apollolaan 171 is a mix of boutique office buildings, housing, and luxury hotels. Our core intention is to connect the new architecture with the lively neighborhood through form and materiality, in contrast to the original JP Morgan building that was more isolated due to the bank’s security needs. In our design, the interlocking glass volumes along Apollolaan 171 give the building an inviting character, while the brick façade facing the residential Titiaanstraat evokes the historical architecture of Berlage.”

The construction of the building was led by JP van Eesteren, with the project management overseen by vb&t Projectmanagement bv. de Architekten Cie. was responsible for the technical and executive design, in collaboration with OMA.

OMA’s design team was led by David Gianotten and Project Architects Vincent Kersten and Michael den Otter.

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Jimmy van der Aa (Studio A Kwadraat), together with David Gianotten and Michael den Otter (OMA), as part of the Schools by Circlewood consortium, have won the competition to design the Wisperweide school in Weesp. Wisperweide, which offers pre- and after school care, is the first school applying Schools by Circlewood’s prefabricated wooden modular system – which has been adopted by the City of Amsterdam earlier this year as one of the bases to build multiple elementary schools. 

The Wisperweide School design competition jury: “The design has a ‘wow’ factor and is unique, fully matching the school’s identity as intended. It is modern with a natural look.”

Schools by Circlewood’s plug and play system (the HoutKern Construction Method) consists of standardized wooden columns, cross-laminated wooden floor panels, smart steel joints, and movable partitions. Wisperweide’s design uses the system to achieve maximum flexibility – both daily and in the long term. Central to the compact building is an auditorium, which is the school’s main gathering and event space visible to most parts of the school. 

Schools by Circlewood consists of Noordereng Groep, Oosterhoff (ABT, Adviesbureau Lüning, bbn adviseurs), Studio A Kwadraat, Adviesbureau DWA, Hedgehog  Company, Heko Spanten Ede B.V., EtuConsult BV, Lomans, Ferross Staalbouw, and OMA. As Schools by Circlewood’s Creative Director, OMA helps to select young designers, and develop in collaboration with them new schools. Studio A Kwadraat is the first selected school designer. The Wisperweide school will be constructed by Friso Bouwgroep. 

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Chris van Duijn has won the competition to design the new campus of Hongik University in Seoul. The scheme will add a cluster of interwoven buildings and public spaces that meld with the existing topography, aiming to strengthen the connection between the university and the city.

“The new Hongik campus adds another chapter to OMA’s involvement in cultural projects in Seoul. This is a project that shies away from conventional labels: it is a building, a masterplan and landscape design all at once. It purposely avoids to stand out and invites to be discovered gradually. In doing so, it aims to reestablish the connection the university once had with the neighborhood.” 
Chris van Duijn, Partner at OMA

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OMA’s David Gianotten and Chiaju Lin have designed the Metropolitan Village in Taipei – a high-rise residential tower in the Xinyi central business district. The 23-storey building is a vertical village shaped by the increasingly fluid boundary between living and working in post-pandemic Taipei, and the city’s diverse urban conditions. 
 
The Metropolitan Village consists of volumes that share a central services core. The volumes – each with a distinctive façade – interlock with each other to create more than 30 different living unit types that support various post-pandemic lifestyles. The building has shared facilities on different floors, which create layers of social spaces in Taipei.
 
The building site is defined by the front and back sides that are distinctive in scale and character: the front side faces a 40m wide main road of the Xinyi commercial area; the back side is a 6m wide street within the Wenchang district infused with local daily activities. The volumes forming the Metropolitan Village respond to the different proportions of the buildings in Xinyi and Wenchang.
 
The main façade is composed of a curtain wall system and aluminum panels that form a durable skin for the machine for living in. Where the living spaces that require minimal privacy are located, patterned glass – commonly used in the interior of old Taiwanese apartments as partitions – has been used for the balustrades. Activities behind the patterned glass become a mosaic indicative of domesticity. 

The project is scheduled for completion in 2027.
 
Images by WAX Architectural Visualizations

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At the 1824 – 2024: The Museo Egizio Towards the Bicentenary press conference in Turin today, OMA’s David Gianotten showcased the competition winning design to transform Museo Egizio, the world’s oldest museum for Ancient Egyptian culture. Museo Egizio President Evelina Christillin and Director Christian Greco presented the museum’s vision as it approaches its bicentenary in 2024.

OMA Managing Partner – Architect David Gianotten: “The OMA team is proud to have been appointed as the architectural designer for the transformation of Museo Egizio. The vast collection, the rich history that it embodies, and the vision for the bicentenary offers inspiration for us to reinforce the cultural significance of Museo Egizio through architecture. The transformed Museo Egizio will be even more connected with the city and publicly accessible, complementing the museum’s ambition to foster public engagement. We compliment the director and his team for their vision for an open and contextual museum.”

OMA’s design creates a new covered courtyard known as Piazza Egizia and a series of connected urban rooms within the existing museum, opening the cultural space to all. Each urban room has its unique scale, function, and quality. A central Spine connects the six urban rooms together, and also to both of the museum’s entrances on Via Accademia and Via Duse. New openings have been introduced to the current façade along Via Duse, further drawing the public into the museum and the Piazza Egizia – a double-level, multifunctional courtyard that showcases the museum’s original architecture and traces of interventions over time. A selection of Museo Egizio’s artefacts is on display for the general public’s initial encounters with the museum collection.

The competition design was led by OMA’s David Gianotten and Andreas Karavanas, in collaboration with local architects Andrea Tabocchini Architecture, T-Studio, and historical consultant Professor Andrea Longhi.

In January 2023, OMA’s design for Museo Egizio 2024 was selected among competition entries by Kengo Kuma and Associates, Pininfarina Architecture, Carlo Ratti Associati, and Snøhetta. 

Construction will begin in March 2024. The cover of Museo Egizia is scheduled to be completed in October 2024 for the museum’s bicentenary.

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