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Posts tagged 'Rem Koolhaas'

Rem Koolhaas on urban mobility

  The architect talks to Peter Smisek about how transport will shape the cities of the future, and why total connectivity might not be as

Architecture

Cars and our urban future

A two-day conference in Rotterdam featuring Rem Koolhaas revealed the European car industry to be confident in its future, but cautious about veering too far

Opinion

Garage Museum by OMA

Rem Koolhaas mixes preservation and provocation in Moscow, turning a Soviet-era workers’ canteen into a contemporary art space, says Edwin Heathcote Rem Koolhaas is utterly

Architecture

Fondazione Prada by OMA

Despite its gold cladding, the Rem Koolhaas’s latest building in Milan is no temple of ostentatious wealth, says Andrew Ayers. With its galleries housed around

Architecture

Satin Island by Tom McCarthy

Charles Holland enjoys a Pynchonesque novel set in the world of branding and “corporate anthropology” – with a suspiciously Koolhaas-like main character To start with,

Opinion

Sérgio Bernardes

Hotel Tropical Tambaú in João Pessoa, Brazil A documentary explores the radical designs that made Brazilian modernist, playboy and Niemeyer contemporary Sérgio Bernardes a star

Opinion

2014 Architecture Practice of the Year: OMA

Rem Koolhaas and his colleagues continue to create buildings in equal parts provocative, exasperating and brilliant. But its the persistent probing of architecture’s big and

Architecture

2014’s most popular articles

This year, Icon readers leapt upon articles featuring big names such as Bjarke Ingels, Rem Koolhaas and Peter Zumthor, as well as those about the

Opinion

Icon Awards 2014: The winners

This year’s awards ceremony took place last night in London. Here is the full list of winners OMA, Barber Osgerby, Martino Gamper and Piet Oudolf

Design

2014 Icon Awards shortlist: Architecture Practice of the Year

Robbrecht and Daem scooped last year’s title. Here are the nominees for the year’s best architecture firm. The category is sponsored by Scandinavian Business Seating

Architecture

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LANZA atelier uses curving brick design for Serpentine Pavilion 2026

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Fondazione MAST kicks off 7th edition of Foto/Industria with a citywide exploration into the meaning of home

Triennale Milano transforms a historic Milan venue into a design-driven stage where music and collaboration lead the way

Copenhagen Architecture Biennial slows down to highlight caring approaches to people and the planet

The newly opened Darsena Listening Suite at Il Sereno in Lake Como is a playground for audiophiles

How Lake Como Design Festival became the quiet leader of a slow, local design revolution


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Meet the dynamic duo behind collectible design gallery STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN



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LANZA atelier uses curving brick design for Serpentine Pavilion 2026

Inside the Malmö studio of Swedish designer Jenny Nordberg

This new build in North London features a playful exterior by architecture practice NIKJOO

10 must-see design exhibitions not to miss in 2026

How architecture studio DEDRAFT revamped a mid-1960s modernist house

5 Highlights from Design Miami 2025

Inside a fully furnished Artemest London penthouse designed by Róisín Lafferty