OMA leads the Masterplan for the Morden Wharf
21/07/2013.
Greenwich Peninsula [LON] UK
metalocus, ROBERTO ALIA, ALEX DURO
metalocus, ROBERTO ALIA, ALEX DURO
Rem Koolhaas office will design the new Masterplan for the Morden Wharf, a 500 meter long strip at the waterfront of River Thames, in the city of London.
Overview, Morden Wharf. Image © courtesy of Cathedral Group.
Surroundings, Morden Wharf. Image © courtesy of Cathedral Group.
OMA has been appointed by Cathedral Group and Development Securities as masterplanner and lead architect of the more than 825.000 square meter Morden Wharf site on London's Greenwich Peninsula. Located in the vicinity of the O2 Arena with 500 meters of waterfront along the Thames River, Morden Wharf is an important part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich's Peninsula West Masterplan, which outlines the Council's intention to transform the Peninsula into a major entertainment zone by focusing development and regeneration around multi-purpose sports, entertainment and educational facilities.
OMA's vision for Morden Wharf adds value to an already impressive site through regeneration of existing buildings and infrastructure which attract visitors and residents to the sites cultural, residential, leisure, and commercial offerings.
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Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is a leading international partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA's buildings and masterplans around the world insist on intelligent forms while inventing new possibilities for content and everyday use. OMA is led by ten partners – Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, David Gianotten, Chris van Duijn, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Jason Long and Michael Kokora – and maintains offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, Doha and Dubai.
OMA-designed buildings currently under construction include Taipei Performing Arts Centre, Qatar National Library, Qatar Foundation Headquarters, Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale in Caen, Fondation d’Entreprise Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Bryghusprojektet in Copenhagen, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, and Faena Arts Center in Miami.
OMA's recently completed projects include Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow (2015); Fondazione Prada in Milan (2015); G-Star Headquarters in Amsterdam (2014); Shenzhen Stock Exchange (2013); De Rotterdam, a large mixed-use tower in the Netherlands (2013); CCTV Headquarters in Beijing (2012); New Court, the headquarters for Rothschild Bank in London (2011); Milstein Hall at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (2011); and Maggie's Centre, a cancer care centre in Glasgow (2011). Earlier buildings include Casa da Música in Porto (2005), Seattle Central Library (2004), and Netherlands Embassy in Berlin (2003).
