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DESIGN:ED Podcast: Shohei Shigematsu

August 9, 2023

OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu joins the podcast to discuss designing within the confines of a historical context, redefining the museum typology, and the firm's addition at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

OMA Designs a New Wing for Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Leopoldo Villardi

July 5, 2023

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The Buffalo AKG Art Museum welcomes visitors after a seven-year effort that included complex negotiations with preservationists.

RECORD Discusses Designing Spaces for Art and Community with Architects and Museum Leaders

RECORD Editors

March 24, 2023

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The sold-out Record on the Road symposium featured Thomas Phifer, Shohei Shigematsu, and the directors of three leading New York museums.

OMA Completes “Yin and Yang” Towers on the Brooklyn Waterfront

Ian Volner

December 19, 2022

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The residential project for Brookfield comprises two buildings that juxtapose setbacks with improbable cantilevers.

At OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center, Building as Public Performance

Three mute volumes float above the city, promising new possibilities for theater

Izzy Kornblatt

December 1, 2022

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The Rem Koolhaas-designed center embraces the visual chaos of Taipei.

Three Starchitect-Designed Museums Planned in Qatar

Dogged by reports of migrant labor abuse, Qatari officials press ahead with lavish plans

Izzy Kornblatt

March 29, 2022

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Widespread reports of abuse of migrant workers have cast a shadow over the country’s development efforts.

Studio Gang’s twisting new 39-story Mira residential tower.

The Future of San Francisco's Transbay District

John King

October 2, 2020

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Tech offices are dark and storefronts are empty. But, as residential towers by Studio Gang and OMA show, the future of San Francisco’s new mixed-use district is planned for diversity and affordability.

Rem to the Rescue: Review of 'Countryside, The Future'

Alexander Gorlin, FAIA

February 24, 2020

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The exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, on view until August 14, raises more questions than it answers.

Pierre Paulin Vision to the Bordeaux House

OMA Brings Pierre Paulin’s Vision to the Bordeaux House

Miriam Sitz

December 20, 2019

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Rem Koolhaas has installed the late French designer's modular furniture system in the Bordeaux House. The exhibition runs through January 2020.

The New Museum’s New Building Design by OMA Revealed

Josephine Minutillo

June 26, 2019

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OMA’s design for the addition, unveiled today, neither competes with, nor defers to the SANAA building. With a simple but dynamic origami-like form, it takes cues from its predecessor while addressing its deficiencies.