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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
Casa de Musica Philippe Ruault copy

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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Meet Slow – the family business championing a conscious approach to soft furnishings

Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway

How Jean Jullien is bringing smiles to audiences around the world with his Paper People

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Meet Milla Novo: The textile artist bridging the gap between technology and heritage crafts

Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

Design Icon: Alvar Aalto’s Armchair 400




Architects

Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway

Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

Out of rubble: archigrest and topoScape reimagine Warsaw’s Uprising Mound as a living park and monument

A new exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center puts on show a bold response to rising waters

LA practice Kadre Architects uses design as a street-level tool for social change

A new book by Stefano Casciani offers an insight into Piero Lissoni’s work

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

Architecture Icon: How the Noguchi Musuem advances the appreciation of its founder’s art and legacy

Architecture Icon: Alvar and Aino Aalto’s house in Helsinki bears all the hallmarks of their approach to design


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Meet Slow – the family business championing a conscious approach to soft furnishings

How Jean Jullien is bringing smiles to audiences around the world with his Paper People

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Meet Milla Novo: The textile artist bridging the gap between technology and heritage crafts

Design Icon: Alvar Aalto’s Armchair 400

Meet James Burial: The US artist bringing his playful aesthetic to the UK

The founder of Zieta Studio tells ICON how its experimental processes are moving forward


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Meet Slow – the family business championing a conscious approach to soft furnishings

Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway

How Jean Jullien is bringing smiles to audiences around the world with his Paper People

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Meet Milla Novo: The textile artist bridging the gap between technology and heritage crafts

Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

Design Icon: Alvar Aalto’s Armchair 400