这是由OMA与Allies and Morrison联合设计的Holland Green居住综合体,位于伦敦设计博物馆隔壁。2008年3月,经过短期竞赛后,OMA从六个国际建筑事务所中脱颖而出,成为获胜者。该竞赛旨在为主展览大厅寻求一种新的建筑功能,同时以住宅开发项目代替原先的行政大楼(已无实际价值),从而为主大厅的修缮筹得资金。获奖方案中,建筑师借拆除行政大楼解放主展览大厅空间,创建“公园的帐篷”,让居住建筑融入公园景观中。
In March 2008, after a short competition, OMA was selected from a shortlist of six international architects, which included Rafael Moneo, Rafael Viñoly Architects, Eric Parry Associates, Caruso St John, and Make Architects. The competition sought to explore the potential for a new use of the main exhibition hall and replacement of the administration wing (of lesser interest) by residential development to help fund the refurbishment of the main hall.
The calm, orthogonal geometries of the new residential buildings pose a deliberate contrast to the dramatic hyperbolic geometries of the exhibition hall’s roof. The facades of the new buildings register the amplitude of the roof’s curvature like ‘graph paper.’
Each residential façade is a hybrid of two different façade types: one being an array of identical vertical windows, the other essentially an expression of the building's structural grid. The latter offers the apartments magnificent views and also incorporates their outdoor spaces, including the large terraces on the upper floors. The two façade types coexist in a seemingly accidental relationship. The addition of sky boxes gives a certain plasticity to the building volumes, allowing (some of) the apartments to extend outside the building perimeter, redirecting the view back to one’s own façade.