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8 Products We Loved at Salone del Mobile 2022
The international furniture fair returned to Milan for a sultry 60th-anniversary edition. Here are Metropolis’s highlights.
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Retracing the Painting Career of OMA Cofounder Zoe Zenghelis
Long overshadowed by her male counterparts, an exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art offers a corrective, reframing the full scope of this artist's work.
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OMA Doesn’t Mince Symbols at the New Axel Springer Campus
The complex’s new building makes a statement about the past of Berlin and the future of journalism.
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OMA’s High-Drama Galleria Adds an Anchor to Gwanggyo
Looking like a meteor that has fallen to earth, the 18-floor structure features a craggy, nearly geological facade.
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At Rem Koolhaas’s Countryside, the Medium Doesn’t Fit the Message—If There is One
The memelike exhibition will please crowds of most stripes, but it’s doomed by an excess of unorganized, sentimentalist content.
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Triangle with a Twist: OMA’s New Tower Reinterprets Local Commercial Ephemera
In Amsterdam’s south, OMA has completed a triangular hotel—the largest in the Netherlands and Belgium—that shows its neighbors how to dance in style.
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At Cornell’s New Fine Arts Library, the Book Sets the Standard
Inside the library, 100,000 volumes appear to float midair across staggered honeycomb steel mezzanines.
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OMA Completes Its First Ground-Up Building in Manhattan
121 East 22nd is a 134-unit condominium development located near Madison Square Park and clad with black precast concrete panels.
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At Miami’s Coconut Grove, OMA Designs Luxe Residences Around Views and Landscaping
“This area had its own culture and history and feelings, different from what people think typical Miami would be," says OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu. "That taught us to respect the experience of Coconut Grove, and the
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J’Adore OMA! Shohei Shigematsu Designs Exhibition for Dior Retrospective in Denver
For Dior: From Paris to the World, Shigematsu and his team draw from the famed fashion house’s history while employing a high-impact material palette.
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In His Latest Residential Building, OMA’s Reinier de Graaf Doesn’t Practice What He Preaches
OMA's Norra Tornen in Stockholm, whose showy launch purposely coincided with that of a nearby residential project by BIG, is a pedagogical embarrassment, our critic writes.
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Manifesta 12 Uses Art and Architecture to Make Powerful Social Commentary
The collaborative ecosystem of commissioned artists, architects, botanists, activists, journalists, and many others embeds itself into the context of the city, engaging with the cultural palimpsests of Palermo on an inti
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Take a First Look at OMA’s New Mixed-Use BLOX Project in Copenhagen
OMA's mixed-use project, which was 12 years in the making, rejects typical "nice" Danish urbanism—but is that a good thing?
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OMA Unveils Dramatic New Community Center for Historic Temple in L.A.
Designed for the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, the trapezoidal Audrey Irmas Pavilion references and respects its historic neighbors.
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OMA’s Paris “Exhibition Tower” Isn’t a Showstopper, Just Eager to Please
The new building, which houses the Lafayette Anticipations galleries, does whatever it's told and will bend over backwards to accommodate curatorial wills.
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OMA’s Versatile New XY180 Lighting Collection is Both Minimalist and Punk Rock
The firm's three-piece lighting collection for Delta Light, its first foray into luminaires, will debut in the United States this March.
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Marina Abramović Responds to Questions Over Funds for Scrapped OMA-Designed Institute
After the OMA-designed institute was cancelled, the whereabouts of $2.2 million raised for the project was questioned.
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OMA Will Design the New Museum Expansion
The new building at 231 Bowery (adjacent the existing museum) will add 50,000 square feet of galleries, public circulation, and flexible space for other new programs and "platforms."
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Rem Koolhaas on Competition “Torture,” Urban Erasure, and Europe’s Ills
During a talk at the Tate Modern, photographer Wolfgang Tillmans provoked compelling responses from Koolhaas, who abandoned the usual script.
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Portugal’s MAAT Museum a Monument to Corporate Ego
The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon, by Amanda Levete, may be a jewel, but it shows a complete and utter disregard for its context.