The following works include "The Captured Globe﹚" by 1974, Sphinx Hotel by 1975, Xinshe Fukushima and Social Welfare Hotel by 1975. Welfare Palace Hotel), Roosevelt Island Reconstruction Project); In1975; These cases are full of bold architectural ideas and presented in amazing paper models (Manhattan, located in new york City).
Although these buildings with strong ideas have never been built, in Koolhaas 1975' s masterpiece Crazy new york: A Theme City Pursuing Freedom Declaration (Delilious New York, a declaration tracing back to Manhattan; ISBN: 1885254008), which caused quite a lot of discussion and criticism.
Before moving to Rotterdam, OMA was just an armchair strategist. When the office was established in Rotterdam, the first actual construction project they received was won by bidding. Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid, who later joined OMA, successfully won the construction contract of the New Dutch Parliament Building in The Hague (the main design is from Zaha Hadid) among about 65,438+00 preferred construction schemes. At that time, the result of this competition caused great controversy. The international architectural community and public opinion criticized that the Dutch parliament should not hand over an important architectural case to OMA, which has no practical experience at all. In the end, OMA is not the company that built this case. At that time, in the international architectural world, the detailed record and publication of this case caused quite a lot of discussion, which greatly improved the popularity of OMA and pushed it into the successful period of 1980. In 198 1 year, OMA's first two architectural experiences came from the planning of Dutch Dance Center and Amsterdam's former harbor defense area. The design and construction of the Dutch Dance Center (pictured) are full of twists and turns due to the change of the base. /kloc-0 started construction in 1984, and when it was completed in 1987,/kloc-0 was criticized by the international architectural community as full of "novice mistakes". Despite endless comments, the Dutch Dance Center is regarded as the first architectural case in OMA that can implement Koolhaas' concept.
As for the planning of Amsterdam's former port defense zone, Koolhaas rarely mentioned it. In this case, he designed two long residential buildings (about 1300 households) and planned schools and community activity centers. In the 1980' s, OMA successively received many construction cases, such as Amir police station in the Netherlands (v 1982 to 1985) and Rotterdam bus station (1985 to 1987). In 2005, the Byzantine apartment in Amsterdam (1985 to 199 1 year) and the Charlie checkpoint in Berlin (1984 to 1990) were demolished. However, these construction cases are not as good as the two important buildings that OMA carried out in Rotterdam and Paris in the late 1980s.
From 1985 to 1988, in Rotterdam, OMA built a terrace villa area named "Miesian" in the embankment area, which integrated the style of the famous architect Miesian Vandler. From 1984 to 19 1, this villa was built according to the client's needs. According to Koolhaas, he originally designed a glass house, but the client also wanted a rooftop swimming pool, so he finally became a glass house with a rooftop swimming pool, so that the case encountered many difficulties in construction. Koolhaas said in his book "Small, Medium, Large, Super Large": "However, it also brought the growth record of OMA".
During the period of 1980, OMA also did a lot of research, including 1979' s Anam prison reconstruction plan, 1979' s Rotterdam Boompjes Tower, 1980' s IBA House in Berlin, and 1983' s Paris World Expo. These research cases are all works that OMA participated in the competition. Although they didn't win the contract, they also established OMA's reputation as an international architectural firm. In 2005; The completion of Seattle Central Library is the first classic work of OMA in 2 1 century. Although OMA was not included in the list of invited architectural firms in the primary election of 1998, OMA was included in the list of invited architectural firms with the assistance of Joshua Ramus, a local partner of OMA Seattle, and finally won the bid.
After the bold and novel design of this library was completed, it caused some criticisms from local residents in Seattle, mainly because its appearance was not like an ordinary library at all and it was out of tune with the city. However, this classic building with a cost of nearly $200 million has also attracted a lot of praise from the design community, pushing Seattle to a part of the international architectural stage. This case also won OMA the Best Architecture Award in Time magazine in 2004 and the AIA Honor Award in 2005 (the highest achievement award in the American construction industry).
Another OMA project (EN: Spree _ River) in Berlin, Germany, also attracted a lot of attention in 2005. The case is the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Koolhaas and ﹙ellen· Van ·loo﹚, it won the biennial European Contemporary Architecture Award. This building also has a strong Koolhaas style, with glass as the main character, and the interior is divided into two by the passage through the floor, which is quite prominent in the riverside night.