Hassell’s Perth principal Sophie Bond is an architect who is optimistic about the future of the industry and the current crop of early-career designers. It’s that attitude that persuaded her to join Australian Design Review‘s 30UNDER30 as a judge and mentor for the 2026/2027 cohort. Bond says she’s particularly encouraged by emerging designers who are […]
The Taipei Performing Arts Centre, designed by OMA, has been completed in a compact and flexible space in the city’s vibrant Shilin Night Market. Led by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Rem Koolhaas and OMA managing partner David Gianotten, the building aims to be a place for “new possibilities in performing arts” in Taipei. Described by OMA […]
Global architecture firm OMA has opened its first Australian outpost in the Brisbane and Sydney. The new base will join OMA’s four other studios in Doha, New York, Hong Kong and the flagship Rotterdam office in The Netherlands. The announcement follows the completion of WA Museum Boola Bardip, in which OMA teamed up with Hassell […]
A new film by Dutch architecture firm OMA and Partner Reinier de Graaf “The Hospital of the Future” have been released as a part of the exhibition, Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales at Matadero Madrid Centre for Contemporary Creation. What OMA calls “visual manifesto”, the 12-minute short film complicates long-standing conventions and methodologies in the field […]
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