Dutch Embassy Berlin, OMA for Netherlands

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Dutch Embassy Berlin building design by OMA

The Netherlands, having sold their former embassy site after the War, was free to choose anew and preferred Roland Ufer in Mitte, the oldest Berlin settlement, next to the (new) government district of their main trade partner.

Cornell University School of Architecture

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Cornell University School of Architecture New York

Pritzker prize–winning architect Rem Koolhaas presented the design for Milstein Hall, the newest building of the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP). Koolhaas and his team unveiled the design created by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).

Bruno Taut House: Poland Building Contest

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Bruno Taut architect

He was also the one who had at courage, at Weissenhof, in Stuttgart, to build a house that refused to be white, as opposed to most of the other architects, including Le Corbusier, who was otherwise quite colorful in his paintings, but not really in his architecture.

Sandro Botticelli House: Competition Poland

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Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter

We think of the Renaissance as that time when man finally broke away from the “man-dwarfing” (as we are told) of the Middle Ages, born anew on the foundations of a newly regained confidence, based mainly on reason (or so).

Ewha Womans University, Seoul building, Korea

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Above and below the land previously occupied by Ewha Square and the athletic fi eld the new ‘Campus Valley’ provides both Ewhaians and prospective female leaders with much-needed space for continuing education and student services.

Casa da Musica, Oporto Building: OMA

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Casa da Musica, Oporto building by OMA

Casa da Música, Porto concert hall building by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) – RIBA European Award 2007 & Stirling Prize 2007 shortlisted: “his century has seen an architecturally frantic attempt to escape from the tyranny of the notorious ‘’shoe-box’’ shaped concert hall.”