Tag: OMA

Movie: Rem Koolhaas on Garage Centre
for Contemporary Culture by OMA

Movie: Rem Koolhaas was at the ICA in London this morning to launch OMA’s design for the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow. He gave Dezeen a quick introduction to the new gallery, which will be built in Gorky Park in the Russian capital for gallerist Dasha Zukhova. More »

Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture
by OMA

Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture by OMA

In the second announcement from Rem Koolhaas’ office today, OMA have unveiled their designs to convert a 5400 square metre 1960s pavilion in Stalinist-era Gorky Park in Moscow into a new venue for the Garage Centre for Contemporary CultureUpdate: watch Rem Koolhaas give a quick introduction to the gallery in Dezeen’s movie here. More »

OMA wins first round of competition
for Moscow expansion


Dezeen Wire:
Rem Koolhaas’ architecture and urban planning practice OMA scored highest in a competition between ten firms seeking to win the right to oversee an ambitious expansion of Moscow. More »

Maggie’s to auction
OMA model


Dezeen Wire:
cancer care charity Maggie’s are hosting a silent online auction to sell a unique model of the OMA-designed Maggie’s Centre in Glasgow signed by Rem Koolhaas.

Bids can be made by following this link from now until Saturday 17 March. More »

Hella Jongerius and Rem Koolhaas to design
United Nations delegates lounge


Dezeen Wire:
a team of Dutch designers including Hella Jongerius, architect Rem Koolhaas and graphic designer Irma Boom have been selected to re-design the North Delegates’ Lounge at the United Nations headquarters in New York. More »

“Can we now say that OMA has grown up?”
– Hugh Pearman


Dezeen Wire:
architecture critic Hugh Pearman has expressed admiration for the mature and understated nature of Dutch practice OMA‘s design for a new headquarters for merchant bank Rothschild on a sensitive site near the Bank of England – Hugh Pearman

Pearman suggests that it is “a miracle that a ‘foreign’ firm of architects with a reputation for the outrageous won the 2005 competition to redevelop the site,” but describes their approach to this project as “well-mannered, corporate, svelte, positively self-effacing.”

The area’s history demanded a low-key approach and Pearman adds that, although he wishes the building “wasn’t on quite such good behaviour,” its response to the brief “makes the right urbanistic moves and is enlivened by some flashes of wit.”

See interviews with OMA partners on Dezeen Screen and all of our stories about OMA here.

“Without a tighter union, Europe will
disintegrate”- Rem Koolhaas


Dezeen Wire:
in an interview with Farah Nayeri for Bloomberg Businessweek, architect Rem Koolhaas describes the European Union as “an incomplete machine” and claims that it will “disintegrate” unless political leaders complete the task of integration begun when the EU was founded.

Koolhaas also talks about working in China, the global workforce currently inhabiting the countryside and his former employee, Zaha Hadid, who he says was “a very independent and massively talented person from the beginning.”

Dezeen spoke to Rem Koolhaas and other partners from his practice OMA at the opening of OMA/Progress, an exhibition at the Barbican art gallery in London. You can see the videos now on Dezeen Screen.

Dezeen Screen: Iyad Alsaka on OMA
and tourism in the Libyan desert

Iyad Alsaka

Dezeen Screen: in this next movie from our series filmed at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Iyad Alsaka explains how the firm charted the Libyan desert, having been asked how to best exploit it for tourism. Watch the movie »

Dezeen Screen: Iyad Alsaka on OMA,
the Middle East and North Africa

Iyad Alsaka

Dezeen Screen: in this interview from our series filmed at the OMA/Progress exhibition at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Iyad Alsaka talks about the firm’s work in Arab countries. Watch the movie »

Above: photograph is by Blommers Schumm

OMA debate live from the Barbican Art Gallery

OMA debate live from the Barbican Art Gallery

Dezeen Screen: here’s a live stream of a debate with all seven partners of architects OMA, taking place at the Barbican Art Gallery in London tonight. Watch the live stream on Dezeen Screen »