OMA Shohei Shigematsu . photos: © Vincent Hecht
The Edo-Tokyo Museum is the first museum dedicated to Tokyo’s history. Since opening in 1993, it has explored the city’s evolution from the early Edo period to today. As part of the renewal of the museum’s iconic building by Metabolist architect Kiyonori Kikutake, OMA was asked to help envision its next chapter, marking the firm’s first public project in Japan. Continue reading OMA
The Dalby Cultural Centre (DCC) is envisioned as a new gateway to Queensland’s Western Downs, a civic landmark that introduces a vibrant identity for Dalby and reshapes its relationship to culture, landscape and community. Led by OMA Australia in collaboration with Anna O’Gorman Architects and Blaklash, the project unites a library, gallery, cinema and visitor information centre into a dynamic cultural ecosystem intimately connected to a revitalised Thomas Jack Park. Continue reading OMA
MaisonMargiela/Folders, an exhibition series designed in collaboration between OMA / AMO and Maison Margiela, opens across multiple cities in China between April 2 and 12, 2026. The project marks OMA / AMO’s first collaboration with Maison Margiela. Continue reading OMA / AMO
Our first cultural institution in New York is a new addition to the New Museum next door to its iconic SANAA-designed building at 235 Bowery. The New Museum has been growing in visitors, exhibitions, and activities. Its diverse engagements, including its expansive education programs, its cultural incubator NEW INC, and, of course, its globally recognized exhibition program have been transforming the institution into a cultural laboratory. We were asked to add a new building that provides much-needed space for its expanded activities and simultaneously reflects increasingly public ambitions—duplicating the program and square footage on a site immediately adjacent to the existing SANAA-designed building—part and counterpart, side-by-side. Continue reading oma
OMA . photos: © Rafael Gamo
The function of the Mushroom Pavilion, as its name suggests, is to cultivate fungi, but also the exchange between food and the local communities of Puerto Escondido by teaching them about the growth process. It will also be integrated into the kitchen of the foundation and of Hotel Escondido. To convey this simple yet important purpose, we conceived a pavilion as a basic, oval form. Like an incubating egg, the self-supporting ellipsoid is derived from an optimized interior organization for growing mushrooms. Continue reading OMA
