‘Ole Scheeren of OMA introduces a new residential typology to Singapore with ‘The Interlace’, a large-scale complex of interconnected apartment buildings stacked in an innovative hexagonal arrangement, developed by CapitaLand and Hotel Properties Limited. Continue Reading →
![Model, il Fondaco dei Tedeschi, Venice, Italy, 2010 [13th century].](http://www.archivenue.com/wp-content/uploads/Fondaco-model.jpg "Model, il Fondaco dei Tedeschi, Venice, Italy, 2010 [13th century].")
OMA recently 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.
First constructed in 1228, the ‘Fondaco dei Tedeschi’ began as a trading post for German merchants and became a customs house under Napoleon in 1806. Its use as a post office has diminished in recent years, leaving much of the building unused and inaccessible for the first time in centuries. The latest evolution of the Fondaco will create a thriving contemporary trading post in the form of a culturally-programmed department store. Continue Reading →
In January 2010, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) 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. Continue Reading →
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SSE) – designed by OMA as the new home for China’s equivalent of the NASDAQ exchange for hi-tech industries – topped out today at 246 metres. 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. Continue Reading →
This is the proposal by wHY architecture for the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec (MNBAQ) international competition, which was won by OMA. (See the winning project here.) Continue Reading →
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) 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.
Three imperatives drive the concept for Chu Hai College’s new campus: a compressed time frame of two years for completion, the natural beauty of the site – a verdant hill overlooking Castle Peak Bay in Hong Kong’s New Territories – and Chu Hai’s venerable history (starting in 1947) of multidisciplinary education. Continue Reading →
Allied Works Architecture in association with Fichten Soiferman et Associés Architectes was selected as one of five finalists in an international competition to design a new pavilion for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) in Québec City, Canada.
The competition was finally won by OMA. Continue Reading →
OMA has been announced as the winner of the international competition for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) expansion. The CAD$90 million project was also consulted with local residents, with an 82% of approval.
A series of stacked boxes remind the programmatic relations of Seattle’s Library, while generating an interesting grand hall facing the street with urban qualities. Continue Reading →
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), 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. Continue Reading →
