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Posts tagged 'Rem Koolhaas'

Who is Bjarke Ingels?

Who is Bjarke Ingels?

BIG’s Serpentine Pavilion, which stacks numerous repeating units, is characteristic of the firm’s designs. Image: George Rex / Creative Commons. Danish architect Bjarke Ingels heads

Architecture

Rem Koolhaas and AMO offer a biennial of the new non-urban economy

AMO’s selection of unique and highly specific conditions distributed over the globe serves as a framework for their research. Image: Courtesy of OMA. Although guilty

Architecture

Industry News and Events for the weekend – 21 February

AMO’s ambitious research-led exhibition Countryside, The Future opens at the Guggenheim, New York. Photograph: Laurien Ghinitoiu. Courtesy AMO. Get a bitesize overview of this week’s

Architecture
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Rem Koolhaas: Anti-architect or visionary?

 Casa de Musica in Porto. Photo by Philippe Ruault Controversial architect Rem Koolhaas is as much a creator of ideas as he is buildings Called

Architecture

OMA’s Blox on the Copenhagen skyline

BLOX by OMA on the Copenhagen harbour. Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani/Marco Cappelletti OMA’s hulking ‘city in a box’ on the Copenhagen harbourfront has been given

Architecture

ICON 181: Wooden rollercoasters, OMA, the new Qatar, and much more

In this issue: Wooden rollercoasters ride again; Brut, the melancholic design collective, Design Indaba 2018; and much more   A word from ICON deputy editor

Opinion

Fondazione Prada: Rem Koolhaas’s sculptural white-concrete tower is finally open

The new Prada Foundation tower by OMA.  Milan had to wait a long time for its own contemporary art museum, but OMA’s Prada Foundation – now

Architecture

Long live the starchitect!

Peter Smisek on why this much-maligned group matters, and should continue to No one likes being called a starchitect. Especially anyone who, by all accounts,

Opinion

Exclusive: OMA on the European Union

The Dutch architecture practice is designing a Brexit installation for the opening of London’s Design Museum. Partner-in-charge Reinier de Graaf reflects on how the practice’s

Opinion

Timmerhuis, Rotterdam, by OMA

This city hall pixellates local government, splitting its many functions into a mass of grey-glass cubes, which hold the possibility of endless reconfiguration Easy to

Architecture

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Yacht builder Sanlorenzo repositions its brand identity in a notable shift for the company

Yahvi Is Quietly Redefining Contemporary Textile Practice

On 10 June 2026, France will welcome a unique exhibition space: the Galerie Nationale du Design

Carl Hansen & Søn partners with colour consultancy Etté to reimagine its Clerkenwell showroom

Noelani Rutz discusses the subtle intricacies of her cultural design crossover between Japan and Switzerland

Vipp brings Scandinavian hospitality to Upstate New York

Horatio’s Garden and Ffern unveil a scent-led floral installation

This new lighting system celebrates exposed architectural details

Iittala brings iconic Aalto Vase into public architecture for 3daysofdesign




Architects

Vipp brings Scandinavian hospitality to Upstate New York

Iittala brings iconic Aalto Vase into public architecture for 3daysofdesign

Snøhetta and Annabelle Schneider turn USM’s Modular System into pavilion

SANAA connects museum and library in new Taichung complex

How a Singapore apartment was rebuilt around a discontinued brick

Travel architecture gets a vivid rethink in Dream in Progress

Practice on Earth transforms Ningbo farmland with inflatable architecture

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Yacht builder Sanlorenzo repositions its brand identity in a notable shift for the company

Carl Hansen & Søn partners with colour consultancy Etté to reimagine its Clerkenwell showroom

Noelani Rutz discusses the subtle intricacies of her cultural design crossover between Japan and Switzerland

Horatio’s Garden and Ffern unveil a scent-led floral installation

This new lighting system celebrates exposed architectural details

Iittala brings iconic Aalto Vase into public architecture for 3daysofdesign

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Yacht builder Sanlorenzo repositions its brand identity in a notable shift for the company

Yahvi Is Quietly Redefining Contemporary Textile Practice

On 10 June 2026, France will welcome a unique exhibition space: the Galerie Nationale du Design

Carl Hansen & Søn partners with colour consultancy Etté to reimagine its Clerkenwell showroom

Noelani Rutz discusses the subtle intricacies of her cultural design crossover between Japan and Switzerland

Vipp brings Scandinavian hospitality to Upstate New York

Horatio’s Garden and Ffern unveil a scent-led floral installation

This new lighting system celebrates exposed architectural details

Iittala brings iconic Aalto Vase into public architecture for 3daysofdesign