OMA New York—the American studio of Rem Koolhaas’s architecture practice—approaches cities as living conversations. Since 2000, the team has reshaped Manhattan’s fabric (see the reimagined Tiffany & Co. flagship) while reinventing building typologies across the continent: turning a Miami parking garage into cultural catalyst (Faena Forum) and reengineering museum circulation (Buffalo AKG’s suspended gallery bridges). Under Shohei Shigematsu’s direction, the office merges OMA’s signature conceptual rigor with North American scale. Their projects don’t just accommodate functions—they expand possibilities, from the acoustic alchemy of Audemars Piguet’s Concert Hall to the social orchestration of Cornell’s Milstein Hall. While grounded in European architectural theory (like their Prada Transformer pavilion), the New York team brings distinct transatlantic energy to infrastructure and institutions—proving that even established systems can evolve through design.
