Shohei shigematsu biography channel

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  • John Enright introduces Shohei Shigematsu, head of OMA's New York office, as a designer and thinker whose ability to bridge disciplines, from economics to.

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    Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is an international practice operating within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism. AMO, a research and design studio, applies architectural thinking to domains beyond. 

    OMA is led by eight partners – Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Ellen van Loon, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, Chris van Duijn, Jason Long, and Managing Partner-Architect David Gianotten – and maintains offices in Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong, Doha, and Australia. OMA-designed buildings currently under construction are the renovation of Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) in Berlin, The Factory in Manchester, Hangzhou Prism, the CMG Times Center in Shenzhen and the Simone Veil Bridge in Bordeaux.

    OMA’s completed projects include Simone Veil Bridge in Bordeaux (2024), LANTERN in Detroit (2024), Mangalem 21 in Tirana (2023), Aviva Studios – Factory International in Manchester (2023), Apollolaan 171 in Amsterdam (2023), Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buff

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    In projects the world over, the architect has defined theretofore unseen urban axes. We had the opportunity to speak with him at the OMA New York office he directs to learn what he hopes to achieve, for Tokyo and for Japan, with his design for the new Toranomon Hills Station Tower.

    PHOTO BY NICHOLAS CALCOTT
    TEXT BY MIKA YOSHIDA
    ADAPTED FOR ENGLISH BY DAVID G. IMBER
    EDIT BY KAZUMI YAMAMOTO
    illustration by Adrian Johnson

    What strikes one first when peering up at the Station Tower is its torqued body, but that gentle twist doesn’t just serve, in its dynamism, to dazzle the eye.

    In designing the Station Tower one thought persisted for architect Shohei Shigematsu: don’t all the world’s skyscrapers tend to look the same from every direction?

    Envisioning an urban axis.

    Views of the Toranomon Hills Station Tower model from different angles.　PHOTO BY Frans Parthesius

    “I’ve always wondered if there were a form that would

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    John Enright introduces Shohei Shigematsu, head of OMA’s New York office, as a designer and thinker whose ability to bridge disciplines, from economics to architectural history, reclaims the huvud role of the architect.

    Shohei Shigematsu begins with a quick review of OMA’s frustrated attempts to build in Southern California, from the planerat arbete for a Universal Studios headquarters in 1996 through their proposal for the Broad Museum (2010), ending with three projects that are going forward.

    Shigematsu describes the evolution of OMA from a collective, to a practice centered around Rem Koolhaas, to its current configuration as nine offices with their own distinctive agendas and projects. He discusses a number of OMA New York projects, completed works, and works in progress:
    •11th Street Bridge Park, connecting the Capitol riverfront to Anacostia, Washington, D.C. (2014-ongoing)
    •Boston Seaport Innovation District (2010)
    •Facebook headquarters and campus, Menl