Aeolian House

Located in the historic Fleetinsel district of Hamburg, the bookshop project will include the provision of design concepts to transform the space from its current form into a ‘cultural catalyst’ within Hamburg.

The project consists of the renovation of a loft apartment in Venice into an artist’s studio. The design focuses on the possibility of providing for the possibility of working and exhibiting large scale artworks with attention being given to the development of a specific MEP system to accommodate for a high degree of experimentation with materials.

Situated within the heart of the Jewish quarter, the Anish Kapoor Art Foundation will be the first foundation of the Artist which will host a permanent collection with his most notable artworks as well as accommodate more temporary exhibitions. The project features the renovation of 18th century Venetian Palazzo to accommodate for the impressive large scale works developed by the artist whilst it also aims to establish the site as a cultural hub for the city of Venice. 

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Designed by the students of the AA Museum Lab, a Diploma unit of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, the Nomadic Bookstore for Lars Müller Publishers is intended as a manifesto of the relevance of books in the context of the expansion of the digital.

Conceived as an integral component of Piazza San Marco since its original instalment in the XII century, the Procuratie Vecchie underwent a series of radical alterations as part of the historical mutations of the Foro Marciano as a whole.

Conceived as a mixed-use building in the heart of Sao Paulo, RPJ project challenges the proliferating tower typology of the Brazilian CBD by inserting in the urban context a 200m long slab.

Railway vision 2020 aims to enhance the experience of travellers and visitors to the stations of the Mass transit Railway: it is also conceived to improve the operation of the system. It leaps into the design, technology and operation as its vase: it offers new outlooks based on the current solid, robust design and operation that everybody in Hong Kong already know and appreciated.  A new design that attempts to make a shift to the future and be realistic at the same time is envisioned.

The West Kowloon Cultural District confronts OMA with the task of turning an overwhelming governmental ambition, with a bewildering diversity of stakeholders, translated in a massive amount of real estate with an incredible richness of program, into a proposal that is fun and serious, planned and spontaneous, large but intimate, Chinese but international, iconic but practical, understandable yet surprising. To avoid the shock of imposing overwhelming change, OMA has chosen as the main model of the project a typology with which every citizen of Hong Kong is familiar: the Village.

The project consists in the renovation of a 16th Century listed building in Carinthia, Austria. The property was in the state of a ruin, as the construction was interrupted abruptly with the Thirty Year’s war (1618-1648) and the building was never completed. The renovation project thus entailed not only restoring the building for residential use, but de facto completing it and at the same time retroactively connecting it to all infrastructural systems, such as acqueduct, sewers, elecritity, etc. The design intent was that of allowing the caratcter of unfinished building to remain legible and respect the structural integrity of the historic fabric.

A residential project facing the Pantheon in Rome.