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Monday, 30 June 2014 11:08

Interview: Ole Scheeren

Scheeren with models of CCTV and Angkasa Raya|Scheeren’s Archipelago Cinema in a bay on Kudu Island, Thailand|The cinema is made of recycled materials and seats 120|The 268m-tall Angkasa Raya in Kuala Lumpur beside the Petronas Towers|With the verdant plinth, Scheeren seeks to suck street life up into the tower||

Ole Scheeren, one of architecture’s brightest talents, left OMA in 2010 ago to found his own practice. He talked to Icon about CCTV, his plans for more Asian towers, and his first realised project: a floating cinema in a picturesque bay in Thailand

Published in Features
Friday, 16 May 2014 01:00

Tomas Koolhaas: film about his father Rem

Tomas Koolhaas|Stills from the film, Rem, capturing the CCTV building in Beijing in February 2012|Stills from the film, Rem, capturing the CCTV building in Beijing in February 2012|A construction worker on the De Rotterdam complex in the Netherlands|Street life in the shadow of CCTV|More Beijing street scenes, with CCTV looming in the background|More Beijing street scenes, with CCTV looming in the background|More Beijing street scenes, with CCTV looming in the background|Rem Koolhaas himself plays only a peripheral role in the film||

Like Nathaniel Kahn, Tomas Koolhaas has made a film about his father, the celebrated architect, but this is no intimate family portrait – Rem himself gets only a supporting role. Instead, Tomas turns his lens on the buildings themselves and the lives taking place in and around them

Published in Features
Wednesday, 05 August 2009 15:37

Google Street View UK

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Google marches towards its destiny of total information awareness, bringing the all-seeing eye of Street View to 25 UK cities.

Published in Review