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Posts tagged 'Rem Koolhaas'

Welcome to ZHA World

Hadid, who recently opened a huge shopping complex in Beijing and launched a sculptural shoe, has had a prolific year. Brand Zaha is now a

Architecture

United Nations Redesign

It took a team of 11 leading architects to create the United Nations headquarters in 1952. The assemblage of sculptural forms on Manhattan’s east side,

Design

Metabolism, the City of the Future

Tokyo’s metabolists, like London’s Archigram and Paris’ situationists, are one of those conjunctions of energy, talent and idealism of the 1960s that can make the

Opinion

New York Grid

This year is the 200th anniversary of the Commissioners’ Plan for New York, the document that established the Manhattan street grid or, as Rem Koolhaas

Design

OMA/Progress

When is a retrospective not a retrospective? When it is curated, not by the subject but by a Belgian, non-hierarchical art collective. OK, that’s not

Opinion
iwan baan

Profile: Iwan Baan

Iwan Baan is a global nomad, restlessly travelling the world documenting new projects by the world’s most distinguished architects. Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas

Design

Inside OMA

There is no practice on the planet quite like Rem Koolhaas’ OMA There is no practice on the planet quite like Rem Koolhaas’ OMA. It

Architecture

Dubai High

Dubai has become a good gag, the most perfectly formed paradigm of boom and bust, its glassy skyline a spiky warning of how it can

Opinion

Venice Biennale 2010

My memory of the Venice architecture biennale this year is of a lot of people looking very relieved. Relieved that they didn’t have to think

Opinion

Sex and the City 2

(images: Warner Brothers/Craig Blankenhorn) This is no chick flick – it’s a text on the state of the contemporary city. Sam Jacob slips on some

Opinion

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Hans J. Wegner’s iconic CH88 chair celebrates its 70th anniversary

Fleur Delesalle unveils three new additions to her furniture collection

Matteo Thun & Partners turn lava stone and glass into wall covering for Florim

Julie Richoz creates a free design toolkit in partnership with A Vibe Called Tech and WePresent

Italian knitwear brand Artknit Studios brings its savoir-faire to London

The Ripple Effect: Alicja Patanowska on copper mining, meditation and working with clay

Quiet Design: How Luxury Brands Are Redefining Power Through Restraint

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

Gubi reimagines Pierre Paulin’s 1960s F300 Lounge Chair with sustainable materials for a new era




Architects

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

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

Il Sereno chair

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

Architects join forces to design birdhouse project for charity auction at Christie’s

24th exhibition Triennale

Triennale Milano presents 24th International Exhibition under the title Inequalities

Lee Broom unveils his first Landmark commission for London Design Festival

Architectural practice Local Local unveils a new contemporary art gallery in the heart of Athens

Archikon Architects prefabricated panel Hungary smart kindergarten

Archikon Architects uses prefabricated panel structure to build Hungary’s first smart kindergarten


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Hans J. Wegner’s iconic CH88 chair celebrates its 70th anniversary

Fleur Delesalle unveils three new additions to her furniture collection

Matteo Thun & Partners turn lava stone and glass into wall covering for Florim

Julie Richoz creates a free design toolkit in partnership with A Vibe Called Tech and WePresent

Italian knitwear brand Artknit Studios brings its savoir-faire to London

The Ripple Effect: Alicja Patanowska on copper mining, meditation and working with clay

Gubi reimagines Pierre Paulin’s 1960s F300 Lounge Chair with sustainable materials for a new era

Lucas Zito explores the evolving design capabilities of 3D printing

Meet MVE-Collection: The design studio transforming construction waste into statement furniture and objects


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Hans J. Wegner’s iconic CH88 chair celebrates its 70th anniversary

Fleur Delesalle unveils three new additions to her furniture collection

Matteo Thun & Partners turn lava stone and glass into wall covering for Florim

Julie Richoz creates a free design toolkit in partnership with A Vibe Called Tech and WePresent

Italian knitwear brand Artknit Studios brings its savoir-faire to London

The Ripple Effect: Alicja Patanowska on copper mining, meditation and working with clay

Quiet Design: How Luxury Brands Are Redefining Power Through Restraint

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

Gubi reimagines Pierre Paulin’s 1960s F300 Lounge Chair with sustainable materials for a new era