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AV Proyectos 76 OMA

Dossier OMA / American Projects. Founded in 1975 in Rotterdam, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture of Rem Koolhaas has offices today in New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, Doha, and Dubai, in charge of a growing num- ber of international projects across three continents. Shohei Shigematsu (Fukuoka, 1973) directs OMA’s New York office, which currently has under way cultural buildings like the recently opened Pierre Lassonde Pavilion at the MNBAQ and the Faena Forum in Miami; skyscrapers in Manhattan like 23 East 22nd Street; and also studies and masterplans like the comprehen- sive urban strategy in New Jersey, a food port in Kentucky,11th Street Bridge, and RFK Campus, these last two in Washington D.C.
Droneport. Drones for Africa. A droneport project for Africa with an initial plan for three buildings to be completed by 2020, and a larger network so that every small town in Africa can have its own droneport by 2030: this is the ambition of the first project of the foundation created by Norman Foster and recently established in Madrid. The EPFL approached Foster with the concept because of his combination of airport design experience and knowledge of flight as a pilot of sailplanes, helicopters, and aircraft. The Droneport is devised as a ‘kit-of-parts’ including the basic formwork and brick-press machinery. Built by the communities, the raw materials are locally sourced, reducing transport costs and making it more sustainable.
Acoustic Works. Just like light, sound plays a key role in the design of architectural spaces. The following small pavilions built around Europe pay special attention to this parameter, directing or amplifying sounds of nature or functioning as music installations. The three wooden megaphones built by students in a forest in the south of Estonia, the acoustic shells of concrete in a landscape of dunes in southern England, the five music domes on the coast of Iceland, and the Aeolus wind harp in Bristol: all of these projects pursue the objective of generating spaces that are articulated by sounds, inviting to reflect upon the relationship between space, sound, and architecture.
Mecanoo. Palace of Justice. Winners of the international competition called in 2006, the Dutch studio Mecanoo – together with the Spanish engineering firm Ayesa – is building the City of Justice of Córdoba since 2014. The new complex of 50,000 square meters is designed to gather all the different court buildings and offices that are currently scattered around the city. The studio led by Francine Houben (Sittard, 1955), based in Delft but with branches in New York, Washington D.C., London, Manchester and Kaohsiung (Taiwan), will complete the com- plex in 2017, and the building will be the second to be raised by the Dutch office in our country, after La Llotja Theater, the emblematic building inaugurated in Lleida in 2010.
Superstudio. 50th Anniversary. Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia founded Superstudio in Florence in 1966. Gian Piero Frassinelli, the brothers Roberto and Alessandro Magris, and Alessandro Poli would later join the architecture, art, and design collective. Just as other groups born during that period, like Archizoom or Archigram, the radical and utopian architecture of Superstudio had a huge influence on the following generations, and their ideas live on. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the group’s foundation, a retrospective exhibition gathers the most important pieces of work carried out by the team until its dissolution in 1978, showing a wide range of proposals illustrated with powerful, captivating images.

Dossier OMA, American Projects
Pierre Lassonde Pavilion, Quebec (Canada)
Faena Arts District, Miami (USA)
The Plaza at Santa Monica, California (USA)
Lucas Cultural Arts Museum, Chicago (USA)
23 East 22nd Street, New York (USA)
425 Park Avenue, New York (USA)
Comprehensive Water Strategy, New Jersey (USA)
West Louisville Food Port, Kentucky (USA)
11th Street Bridge Park, Washington D. C. (USA)
RFK Stadium-Armory Campus, Washington D. C. (USA)

Droneport, Drones for Africa
The Norman Foster Foundation

Pabellones sonoros, Acoustic Works

Estonian Academy of Arts
‘Ruup’ Forest Megaphones, Võru County (Estonia)

Flanagan Lawrence
‘Acoustic Shells’, Littlehampton (United Kingdom)

Lukas Kühne
‘Tvisöngur’, Seyðisfjörður (Iceland)

Luke Jerram
‘Aeolus’, Bristol (United Kingdom)

Palace of Justice, in Detail
Mecanoo
Córdoba (Spain)

Superstudio, 50th Anniversary
MAXXI, Rome (Italy)

Paco Gómez, Instant Chronicler
El instante poético y la imagen arquitectónica