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OMA has designs on the Big Apple

Rem Koolhaas today unveiled plans for OMA’s first residential high-rise in New York City. The 107m-tall building, on 23 East 22nd Street in the Flatiron District just off Madison Square, will include 18 residences within 24 residential floors, along with a screening room for the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a main lobby, pool and gym, all of which have been designed by OMA. “Mirroring the traditional New York setback, the building’s form is at once familiar and distinctive,” Read more [...]

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Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre

Designed to be one of the world’s most innovative theater facilities, the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre will represent the ultimate union of architectural function and form in modern performing arts.  The Wyly Theatre, set in the heart of Dallas' Arts District, will be the new home to the Dallas Theater Center. The 11-story and one-sublevel building will feature an unprecedented “stacked,” vertically organized design that completely rethinks the traditional form of theater. In a typical Read more [...]

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Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid (born October 31, 1950, Baghdad, Iraq) is a notable British Iraqi deconstructivist architect. Zaha Hadid was born October 31, 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. After graduating she worked with her former teachers, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, becoming a partner in 1977. It was with Read more [...]

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