OMA/AMO is a finalist in the competition to design the masterplan for the Skolkovo Centre for Innovation, or "Russian Silicon Valley," 20 kilometers outside Moscow. Announcement of the winner is imminent. , full_html
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Skolkovo. Image courtesy of © OMA
Designing an idea. Commissioned by The British Foreign & Commonwealth Office, this film describes the concept behind Thomas Heatherwick's design for the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. , full_html
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UK Pavilion, Seed Cathedral. Shanghai Expo, China, 2010. By Heatherwick Studio. Photography © Iwan Baan
The sinuous and segmented design of the bridge winds above de valley, along a distance of about 220 m. The central bay takes the perpendicularity to the line of the valley. The other two sections are inflected and oriented towards their anchoring…
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Photography © Vítor Gabriel
This book gathers some of the houses Octavio Mestre team have designed and built over 25 years into the profession. As the book is aimed towards a younger audience, possibly students of architecture and related disciplines, it puts as much special…
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Cover. Sunlight Houses by Octavio Mestre
Although not previously shown interest in the sustainability of cities and buildings, now in what some might consider a degree of cynicism, since now projects have are designing with these parameters, both Sir Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid, have two…
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"El futuro de la arquitectura". Ciduad de Masdar
The architect Zaha Hadid (Bagdad, 1950) won the Pritzker Prize in 2004. Patrik Schumacher is a partner of theoretical study and architecture., full_html
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Project of the building under construction Espiral Tower, of Barcelona, of Zaha Hadid. ZAHA HADID
Facade work has begun on Shenzhen Stock Exchange, designed by OMA as the new home for China's equivalent of the NASDAQ exchange for high-tech industries. See below the latest construction images. The facade of the tower is scheduled for completion…
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Essence Financial Building in Shenzhen by OMA. Photograph © Philippe Ruault
This film was commissioned by Snohetta architects to promote a new virtual building on the moon. We follow an astronaut on a routine scientific expedition., full_html
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The revolution will not be televised. SNØHETTA architects
OMA has been commissioned to produce a new design strategy and identity for Hong Kong’s transit authority, the MTR. The plan, Railway Vision 2020, will culminate in OMA designing and building two new stations as prototypes for the entire network…
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We saw the project 2 weeks ago. We felt that the project was of low quality and did not reflect the quality of their authors, so we decided not to mention. A week after dozens of blogs, without any reflection, showed it (this is something done with…
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