31 August
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OMA, Palazzo delle Esposizioni
OMA’s exhibition shows that nearly 12% of the planet is marked as ‘preserved’ and increasingly the boundaries of preservation are narrowing. Radical change and radical stasis and the unmitigated rise of the preserved building. VIDEO
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31 August
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OMA, Palazzo delle Esposizioni
OMA’s exhibition shows that nearly 12% of the planet is marked as ‘preserved’ and increasingly the boundaries of preservation are narrowing. Radical change and radical stasis and the unmitigated rise of the preserved building. VIDEO
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30 August
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Volkskrant 30 August 2010
De gevolgen van architectonische behoudzucht zijn soms pervers, zegt ‘starchitect’ Rem Koolhaas in een vraaggesprek in Venetie, waar hij een oeuvre-Gouden Leeuw kreeg.
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28 August
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At the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice today, Rem Koolhaas was awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement by Biennale director Kazuyo Sejima. Koolhaas commented: "It is a really wonderful moment to get a lifetime achievement award in the middle of my career. I will certainly treat it as an encouragement for further action. Thank you."
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28 August
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Given that we often criticize the meager and token efforts of fern-covered walls or 'greenwashed' products which often surface at biennales, admittedly we found it a bit strange to come to Venice and talk about sustainability. We wanted, however, to use the opportunity to suggest that architects could play a larger role in addressing the urgency of the issue.
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28 August
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Venice, 27 August, 2010 – OMA today unveils its design for the major restoration and redefinition of one of Venice's largest and most iconic buildings: the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, a property owned by the Benetton family, adjacent to the Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal.
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28 August
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In a rare meeting of minds, Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster and Rocco Yim this afternoon presented their conceptual masterplans for the West Kowloon Cultural District in the Hong Kong pavilion at the Venice architecture biennale. OMA's design is based on the model of urban villages, which Koolhaas explains here...
More videos after the jump.
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8 September
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Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf of OMA just participated in a forum at the Teatro Piccolo with the founders of Strelka, a new school in Moscow starting in October, for which AMO is developing the educational program.
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26 August
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OMA's exhibition on Preservation - its expanding territories, increasing demands, and unforeseen side effects - is opening to the press today at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. With the theme of CRONOCAOS, we explore the wrenching simultaneity of preservation and destruction, which is destroying any sense of a linear evolution of time.
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30 August
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Tanna Chong, Aug 23, 2010
The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority has brushed aside concerns that the final design of the arts hub will end up being a mishmash of incoherent elements.
The final plan for the 42-hectare project would maintain the integrity of its original design, the authority's chief executive, Graham Sheffield, said.
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27 August
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Hong Kong, 20 August, 2010 – The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority unveiled today OMA's conceptual masterplan for a major new arts district in Hong Kong. Under OMA's plan – one of three competing proposals – the 40 hectare waterfront site facing Victoria Harbour would become an authentic environment of three urban villages embedded in a new public park, Hong Kong's largest.
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24 August
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By Matt Tyrnauer, August 2010 What is the most important piece of architecture built since 1980? Vanity Fair’s survey of 52 experts, including 11 Pritzker Prize winners, has provided a clear answer:
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26 August
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Moscow, 19 August 2010 – Strelka, a new postgraduate school in Moscow for Media, Architecture and Design, is teaming up with OMA at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – directed by Kazuyo Sejima and titled People meet in Architecture – for a conversation on architectural education – in Russia and beyond. OMA’s think tank, AMO, has developed an educational programme for Strelka, which will open its doors to students in October.
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25 August
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Rotterdam, 19 August, 2010 – OMA's major installation 'Preservation' opens next week in Venice at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, alongside exhibits on current work around the world and a new, large-scale preservation project in Venice itself.
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13 August
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After a fire in February 2009 and subsequent structural and safety assessments, repairs began yesterday on OMA's Television Cultural Centre in Beijing. The Beijing Urban Construction Group is restoring the building according to OMA's original design. Adjacent to the China Central Television headquarters (also designed by OMA), TVCC will include a hotel, theatre, exhibition and conference space.
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14 July
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July 2010
Koolhaas discusses OMA's curatorial masterplan for the Hermitage, and the state of museums today.
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9 September
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Shenzhen, 28 June, 2010 – The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SSE) – designed by OMA as new home for China’s equivalent of the NASDAQ exchange for hi-tech industries – topped out last Saturday at 246 metres, confirming its monumental presence in the rapidly developing centre of Shenzhen. The building is remarkable not only for its height: with a raised podium suspended 36 metres over a public plaza and projecting 54 metres from the tower base, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange has one of the largest cantilevers in the world.
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21 June
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25 May 2010
Feature on Strelka, a new postgraduate school for media, architecture and design in Moscow, which educational program is written by AMO.
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21 June
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10 May 2010
Interview with Rem Koolhaas and Feature on Al Manakh: Gulf Continued, a 536-page guide to the Gulf published by AMO, Pink Tank, Archis and the Netherlands Architecture Institute in April 2010.
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11 May
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10 May 2010
Feature on Al Manakh: Gulf Continued, a 536-page guide to the Gulf published by AMO, Pink Tank, Archis and the Netherlands Architecture Institute in April 2010.
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5 June
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09 May 2010
Feature on Roadmap 2050: A Practical Guide to a Prosperous, Low-Carbon Europe, a report commissioned by the European Climate Foundation by five leading consultancies: Imperial College London, KEMA, McKinsey & Company, Oxford Economics and AMO.
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26 May
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05 May 2010
Feature on OMA Bookmachine, an exhibition of 35 years of OMA publications in one single 40,000 page book, on display at London's Architectural Association.
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9 June
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29 April 2010
Feature on competition for new Dance & Music Theatre in The Hague, which will replace OMA's NDT building from 1987
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7 May
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London, 7 May 2010 – OMA Book Machine, running from 7 May – 4 June at the Architectural Association in London, is the first ever retrospective of the books produced by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture – a practice co-founded by a writer, Rem Koolhaas, largely on the basis of a book, Delirious New York (1978). The centrepiece of the show is a specially-made 40,000-page book, binding together hundreds of OMA’s pamphlets and books made over 35 years of architectural thought, work and provocation.
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4 May
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Moscow, 4 May 2010 – Strelka, a new postgraduate school for media, architecture and design, launches its ambitious educational program for 2010-11, developed in collaboration with AMO, in a special event at the Red October Chocolate Factory in Moscow on 25 May.
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19 April
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Rotterdam, 19 April – Al Manakh: Gulf Continued is an essential and comprehensive guide to the cities of the Gulf, penetrating media clichés and delving deep into the new challenges facing the region in the wake of the financial crisis.
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11 May
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14 April 2010
Rem Koolhaas delivers a lecture at Cornell University – where OMA is building a major extension to the College of Art, Architecture, and Planning – on OMA's projects in the US, built and unbuilt.
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19 April
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Brussels, 13 April, 2010 – AMO, the think tank within the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), has extended its expertise in planning into the design of the future energy infrastructure of the EU as part of Roadmap 2050: A Practical Guide to a Prosperous, Low-Carbon Europe. The project, proposing an EU-wide decarbonized power grid by 2050, launches in Brussels today to an audience of European leaders.
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7 April
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6 April 2010
Editorial by Reinier de Graaf in the Financial Times special supplement The Future of Cities.
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2 April
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1 April 2010
OMA's competition-winning design for an additional building for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
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7 April
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New York, 31 March 2010 – The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), has won the competition for a major expansion to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). The 12,000m2 new building, a cascade of three overlapping boxes at the juncture of downtown Quebec City and the historic Battlefields Park, will be OMA's first built project in Canada.
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29 March
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17 March 2010
OMA's unveils its study for the Plaine du Var region of the Côte d'Azur.
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1 March
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Beijing/Rotterdam, 1 March 2010 – OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) and Ole Scheeren announced today that Ole Scheeren will be leaving the firm in order to establish his own studio.
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26 February
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10 February 2010
OMA's work on sustainability: from Zeekracht, a plan for the North Sea, to a roadmap for a carbon-free European energy grid
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24 February
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18 February 2010
Milstein Hall, OMA's new building for the college of Architeture, Art and Planning at Cornell University, is on schedule for completion in summer 2011
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24 February
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26 January 2010
OMA is on a shortlist of 10 firms presenting conceptual designs for an underground extension to the V&A in London
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29 January
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Hong Kong, 15 January 2010 – The Office for Metropolitan Architecture in collaboration with Leigh & Orange Architects has won the competition for the new campus for Chu Hai College of Higher Education in the New Territories in Hong Kong. The campus will give Chu Hai College, established in 1947, a new identity as well as a new site.
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27 January
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7 January 2010
Seattle Public Library and CCTV Headquarters are listed in top ten for decade
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27 January
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21 December 2009
Rem Koolhaas discusses the Córdoba Congress Centre
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27 January
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13 December 2009
Casa da Musica named in The Times' top five
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27 January
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1 December 2009
OMA awarded 'Show and Sell' prize for Prada Transformer
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27 January
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21 December 2009
Rem Koolhaas at 2009 Hong Kong and Shenzen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture
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11 November
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Rotterdam, 11 November 2009 – AMO, the research and design studio of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, has been selected by the local government of Nice Côte d’Azur to generate a new vision for the region of Plaine du Var.
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7 January
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Rotterdam, 21 October 2009 – The Office for Metropolitan Architecture, in collaboration with Werner Sobek and engineers ABT, has won the competition for Rotterdam's Stadskantoor, a new building for the city hall that will accommodate municipal services, offices, and residential units. The winner was announced this morning by city alderman Hamit Karakus.
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15 October
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Dallas, 14 October 2009 – The Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, a reimagining of a conventional theatre building, with a ground-level performance space and auditorium visible from the outside, opens in Dallas this week. The Wyly Theatre, part of the city's new AT&T Performing Arts Center, is designed by REX / OMA, Joshua Prince-Ramus (partner in charge) and Rem Koolhaas.
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3 April
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24 November 2009
Elia Zenghelis, co-founder of OMA, lectures at Rotterdam's Berlage Institute on the early years of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture
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27 January
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17 November 2009
Rem Koolhaas delivers lecture on urban planning policy in the Randstad region of the Netherlands
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