OMA's De Rotterdam, the largest building in the Netherlands, reached its highest point of construction - 150 metres - today. The achievement, exactly one year prior to the scheduled completion of the building, was marked by a ceremony attended by OMA partners-in-charge Rem Koolhaas and Ellen van Loon, and associate-in-charge Kees van Casteren.

In a ceremony today, OMA's Maggie's Centre Gartnavel in Glasgow was awarded the Andrew Doolan Award by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. Named after its founder and patron, the architect/developer Andrew Doolan, the RIAS Doolan Award celebrates the best buildings in Scotland. Maggie's Centre was selected from a shortlist of 13 other projects. OMA partner-in-charge Ellen van Loon commented: "I sincerely thank the RIAS for this significant recognition. I am happy to announce that the £25,000 prize has been donated to Maggie's - a fantastic cause and a project which I thoroughly enjoyed working on."

The Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam today awarded Rem Koolhaas an honorary doctorate for his "outstanding services to architecture." Professor Lex Bouter, Rector Magnificus of VUA, conferred the honor in a ceremony including talks on architecture by Michel ter Hark, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and by the Belgian writer Kristien Hemmerechts. In his acceptance speech, Koolhaas cited a "constant curiosity" as the driver for his work in both building and writing.

Miu Miu's spring/summer womens catwalk show, designed by AMO, streams live at 14:00 CET today. Watch the show live here.

For the Prada Autumn/Winter 2012 lookbook and video Real Fantasies, AMO projects the future of fashion as a retrofitted past. Set within a dystopian society of machines and jagged geometries, genetically perfected clones roam digital colonies. Each scene depicts an antiquated landscape within a galaxy of characters engrossed in oblique and possibly deviant power dynamics. More information can be found here. Check out the video here.

Rem Koolhaas has been named the winner of the Jencks Award for 2012. Given annually to an individual (or practice) that has recently made a major contribution internationally to both the theory and practice of architecture, the Jencks Award will be presented on Tuesday 20 November at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London. The event will feature a public lecture by Koolhaas, chaired by Charles Jencks, architectural theorist.  Jencks commented: "Rem Koolhaas, more than any other architect of his generation, has built a parallel life between the theory and practice of architecture." Previous winners of the Jencks Award include Zaha Hadid, Foreign Office Architects, Peter Eisenman, Cecil Balmond and Steven Holl.

OMA has won a competition for the École Centrale Paris and its urban developments in Saclay. The project, led by Clément Blanchet, Director of OMA projects in France, has been selected to develop the engineering school, through a competition process against four international architectural practices.

This autumn, Galeries Lafayette, Paris's iconic department store, will celebrate the 100^th anniversary of its famed Cupola, a symbol of the store's commitment to culture. OMA has been invited to study this centennial cultural journey. Conceived by AMO, 1912-2012: Chroniques d'un parcours créatif is an exhibition reflecting the store's unique formula of mixing culture with shopping under the iconic stained glass, built in 1912 by architect Ferdinand Chanut and the master glassmaker Jacques Gruber.

In the second round of the 'Big Moscow' Competition - to masterplan Moscow's expansion - the team led by OMA was again among the top scoring teams, judged by a jury of international and local experts. After two rounds, OMA has the highest cumulative score, with the teams led by Grumbauch & Associates, Ricardo Bofill and Chernikov sharing second place.

Milstein Hall, OMA's extension of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) at Cornell, has been awarded LEED Gold Certification. The award recognizes the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings in the United States.

OMA's recently completed New Court headquarters for Rothschild bank in London and the new Maggie's Centre in Gartnavel, Scotland, have each received a 2012 RIBA Award for excellence. Both buildings are now contenders for this year's RIBA Stirling Prize. New Court has also won RIBA's London Building of the Year.

Très Grande Bibliothèque, OMA's 1989 project for a national library in Paris, is being exhumed from the archive for an exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal. The exhibition, curated by Rem Koolhaas and Clément Blanchet, presents models, drawings and research produced by OMA in response to an international competition launched by France's then president, François Mitterrand. OMA's design was for a giant cube with areas of emptiness that would accommodate the library's various functions - a "strategy of the void".