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Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is an architecture firm based in Rotterdam that was founded in 1975 by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Greek architect Elia Zenghelis, along with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis.

Projects:

• Fondaco dei Tedeschi
• Concrete at Alserkal Avenue

Founded:

• London, 1975

Active Design Offices:

• Rotterdam / Netherlands
• New York / USA
• Hong Kong / China

Past Design Offices:

• Dubai / UAE (2015-2017)
• Athens / Greece (1982-1985)

Active Site Offices:

• London / United Kingdom
• Perth / Australia
• Doha / Qatar

Past Site Offices:

• Beijing / China
• Doha / Qatar

Partners:

• Rem Koolhaas (1975)
• Ellen van Loon (2002)
• Reinier de Graaf (2002)
• Shohei Shigematsu (2008)
• Iyad Alsaka (2010)
• David Gianotten (2010)
• Chris van Duijn (2014)
• Jason Long (2014)

Previous Partners:

• Madelon Vriesendorp
• Elia Zenghelis and Zoe Zenghelis (left in 1987)
• Kees Christiaanse (left in 1989 to start KCAP)
• Dan Wood (left in 2003 to start Work.AC)
• Joshua Prince-Ramus (left in 2006 to start REX) 
• Floris Alkemade (left in 2008 to start FAA)
• Ole Scheeren (left in 2010 to start Buro-OS)
• Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli (left in 2020 to start 2050.plus)
• Victor van der Chijs (left in 2013)
• Michael Kokora (left in 2016)

Key Designers:

• Adrianne Fisher (Rotterdam)
• Kees van Casteren (Rotterdam)
• Alain Fouraux (Rotterdam)
• Ravi Kamisetti (Hong Kong)

Past:

• Zaha Hadid (ZHA)
• Winy Maas (MVRDV)
• Alejandro Zaera-Polo (FOA) (AZPA) (Princeton University)
• Farshid Moussavi (FOA) (FMA) 
• Mike Guyer (Gigon/Guyer)
• Minsuk Cho (Mass Studies)
• Amale Andraos (work.ac) (Columbia University, GSAPP)
• Erez Ella (HQ)
• Bjarke Ingels (BIG)
• Clément Blanchet-Arnault
• Fernando Donis (Donis)
• Kunle Adeyemi (NLÉ)
• Yves Brunier
• Natasha Sandmeier (UCLA)
• Barend Koolhaas (Barend Koolhaas)
• Jimenez Lai (Bureau Spectacular)
• Adam Frampton (Only If)
• Karolina Czeczek (Only If)
• Keigo Kobayashi (NoRA)
• Selma Maaroufi (NoRA)
• Mitesh Dixit (Domain Office)
• Fernando Romero
• Marc Paulin
• Beth Hughes (RCA)
• Stephan Petermann
• Selva Gurdogan (Superpool) (Studio-X, Istanbul)
• Gregers Tang Thomsen (Superpool) (Studio-X, Istanbul)
• Arman Akdogan (IND)
• Dirk Peters (Barcode)
• Alessandro De Santis (7278)
• Dora Sweijd
• Kaveh Dabiri (NoRA)
• Oliver Wainwright (The Guardian)
• Evangelos Kotsioris (Princeton)
• Lou Arencibia (OLA)
• Shabnam Hosseini (Shab Office)
• Aras Burak (Building Office)

Built / Under Construction / Demolished:

• CCTV Headquarters (2002 – 2012) Beijing / China (473.000m²)
• Parc des Expositions (2011 – ) France  (271.000m²)
• Interlace (2007 – 2013) Singapore (170.000m²)
• De Rotterdam (1997 – 2013) Rotterdam / Netherlands (162.000m²)
• TVCC (2002 – 2012) Beijing / China (95.000m²)
• Axel Springer (2014 – ) Berlin / Germany (82.000m²)
• Casa da Musica (1999 – 2005) Porto / Portugal (54.127m²)
• Taipei Performing Arts Center (2009 – ) Taipei / Taiwan (46.500m²)
• The Plaza at Santa Monica Place (2013 – ) Los Angeles, CA / USA (45.755m²)
• Timmerhuis (2009 – 2015) Rotterdam / Netherlands  (45.000m²)
• Seattle Public Library (1999 – 2004)  Seattle, WA / USA (38.300m²)
• Commonwealth Institute (2008 – ) London / UK (30.000m²)
• Fondazione Prada (2008 – ) Milano / Italy (28.340m²)
• Blox (2006 – ) Copenhagen / Denmark (27.195m²)
• Congrexpo (1990-1994) Lille / France (20.000m²)
• Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec (2010 – )  Quebec / Canada (14.850m²)
• New Court Rothschild Bank (2005 – 2011) London / UK (14.492m²)
• Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale (2010 – ) Caen / France (12.700m²)
• Educatorium (1992 – 1995) Utrecht / Netherlands (11.000m²)
• IIT McCormick Tribune Campus Center (1997 – 2003)  Chicago, IL / USA (10.690m²)
• Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre (2001 – 2009) Dallas, TX  / USA (9.000m²)
• Netherlands Embassy (1997 – 2003) Berlin / Germany (8.500m²)
• Netherlands Dance Theatre (1981 – 1987) – 2016) The Hague / Netherlands (7.260m²)
• Kunsthal (1987 – 1992) Rotterdam / Netherlands (7.000m²)
• Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (2011 – 2015) Moscow / Russia (5.408m²)
• Milstein Hall Cornell University (2006 – 2011) Ithaca / USA  (4.370m²)
• Faena Arts Center (2011 – ) Miami, FL / USA (3.954m²)
• Villa dall’Ava (1984 – 1991) Paris / France (1.350m²)
• Alserkal Main Gallery (2015 – 2017) Dubai,  UAE (950m²)
• Maison à Bordeaux (1994 – 1998) Bordeaux / France (500m²)

Unbuilt:

• Exodus (1972) London / UK
• Parc de la Villette (1982) Paris / France
• Ville Nouvelle Melun Senart (1987) Lille / France
• Très Grande Bibliothèque (1989) Paris / France
• Agadir Convention Centre (1990) Agadir, Morocco
• Jussieu Library (1992) Paris / France
• Tate Modern (1994) London / UK
• NSIA Masterplan (1995) Seoul / South Korea
• Universal Headquarters (1996) Los Angeles, CA / USA
• Hyperbuilding (1996) Bangkok /  Thailand
• Cordoba Congress Centre (2002) Cordoba / Spain
• Istanbul Courtyard-Tower (2015) Istanbul / Turkey

Books:

• Delirious New York (1978) (Rem Koolhaas)
• S, M, L, XL (1995) (Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau)
• Content (2004) (Rem Koolhaas)