OMA’s MPavilion 2017 with a floating roof opens today in Melbourne
Melbourne is heating up for the summer with a new OMA-designed amphitheater. OMA founder Rem Koolhaas and colleague...
Amsterdam is transforming a prison into a green energy-generating neighborhood
A brighter, solar-powered future is coming to Bijlmerbajes, a former prison complex in Amsterdam. The Dutch government...
OMA gets green light for their first major public building in the UK
Move over London—Manchester is on the rise as an arts and culture capital in the north of England. City councilors...
London’s new Design Museum opens this week inside a renovated post-war modernist building
Topped with a sweeping paraboloid copper-clad concrete roof, the Design Museum’s new building features a double-glazed...
Los Angeles approves $28 million FAB Park designed by OMA and IDEO
Los Angeles may soon receive a much-needed green boost. City officials have chosen the design team for a planned...
Massive solar-powered garden towers to spring up in Tokyo
The Toranomon Project will comprise two buildings: a 175,000-square-meter office tower and a 122,000-square-meter...
Naihan Li turns OMA’s “big pants” tower into a playful wardrobe
Originally unveiled in 2014, Naihan Li’s I AM A MONUMENT CCTV made its rounds again at this year’s La Triennale...
OMA unveils designs to transform iconic RFK Stadium-Armory campus from pavement to sports park
Events DC, the official sports authority and convention of the city, revealed two OMA proposals—the “North-South...
OMA unveils plans to renovate Europe’s largest department store in Berlin
Founded in 1905, KaDeWe currently offers over 60,000 square meters of retail space across eight floors, each featuring...
OMA completes the Netherlands’ most sustainable mixed-use building in Rotterdam
Commissioned by the City of Rotterdam, the 48,400-square-meter, €100-million Timmerhuis was conceived through...
OMA unveils plans to transform former tobacco plant into local food hub in Louisville
In an ambitious effort to bring food producers and consumers closer together, OMA has developed a masterplan that...
New York City moves forward with BIG U plan to protect Manhattan from future super storms
Remember BIG U, the giant, storm-resilient green strip proposed by the Bjarke Ingels Group to protect Manhattan...
OMA wins competition for the Lujiazui Exhibition Center in Shanghai
The new Exhibition Center will serve as a major culture and event hub for the famous financial district of Lujiazui....
Four Visionary Designs Unveiled for D.C.’s First Elevated Park
Covering an area greater than three football fields, 11th Street Bridge Park will offer a variety of programming...
OMA Celebrates Topping Out the Taipei Performing Arts Center Today!
OMA sought to break the conventional mold of performance center design by creating a structure that embraced flexible...
MIT Proposes “New Meadowlands” Plan to Protect New Jersey and New York from Future Storms
How would some of the nation's smartest minds approach the Eastern seaboard's increasingly dire problem of rising...
MIT’s “New Meadowlands” Marshland Plan Could Protect New York from the Next Hurricane Sandy
Yesterday we took an early peek at the top ten designs from the Rebuild By Design competition, a contest to find...
Rebuild by Design Competition Unveils Shortlist of Proposals for a Resilient Post-Sandy World
Announced last summer, the Rebuild by Design competition is an initiative of the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task...
10 Designs Show How Sandy-Affected Communities Can Be Rebuilt More Resiliently
Rebuild by Design, a competition to find resilient solutions for restoring communities affected by Hurricane Sandy,...
OMA Beats BIG and Buro Ole Scheeren in Bid to Design Axel Springer Campus in Berlin
Described by OMA as a "palace to lure the elite of (Germany's) digital Bohemia," the modern office building is...
OMA New York Selected to Build Residential Skyscraper in San Francisco
OMA New York is teaming up with developer Related California to design a 550-foot residential tower in the SoMa...
AIANY to Debut Disaster-Proof Architecture Exhibit “Considering the Quake: Seismic Design on the Edge”
Curated by postdoctoral fellow Dr. Effie Bouras and Professor Ghyslaine McClure, P.Eng of the McGill University...
Skyscraper Candles Let You Set the World’s Most Iconic Towers on Fire
Li, who's previously worked alongside Ai Weiwei and at OMA, says that the motivation behind 'Flammable' was sparked...
OMA Wins Competition to Design Firm’s First Bridge in Bordeaux, France
The 144=foot-wide Pont Jean-Jacques Bosc Bridge will be the sixth bridge to cross the river Garonne, and the first...
BIG, OMA, and Buro Ole Scheeren Selected as Finalists in Axel Springer Competition in Berlin
Described by the firm as a “three dimensional neighborhood,” Bjarke Ingels Group's design focuses on collaboration...
OMA’s New De Rotterdam ‘Vertical City’ Tower is the Largest Building in the Netherlands
Reaching nearly 500 feet tall with a gross floor space area of over 1.7 million square feet, the giant glass towers...
OMA’s Jenga-Like ‘Interlace’ Luxury Apartments Near Completion in Singapore
Surrounded by a 5.5-mile greenbelt, The Interlace interweaves elements of the environment into the complex with...
OMA Completes 3-Star Green Rated Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Following on the heels of their CCTV Headquarters, a folded skyscraper in Beijing, OMA has now completed another...
Top Dutch Designers Transform the United Nations Delegates’ Lounge into a Bright, Open Space
To create the large, airy lounge, one of the design’s most significant alterations was the removal of the mezzanine....
OMA Wins Bogotá’s Centro Administrativo Nacional Masterplan Competition
The 680-acre master plan envisions a new civic center located at the city’s main axis, which starts at Bogota's...