Since their first collaboration in 2004, every year AMO – the research and design branch of the office founded by Rem Koolhaas – designs the sets for the runway shows of the Milanese luxury fashion house Prada. Proposing issues like the relationship
The use of subtraction as a strategy to order, connect, and generate new possibilities in the spaces, is reflected in the outdoor corridor that divides the factory into two parts: a new connection between the museum and the showroom, and the emptying
The proposal combines two sides, one that respects the image of the original tower, subtly renewed, and another that plays with curved bronze meshes sandwiched between glass plates. This arrangement generates classic and contemporary atmospheres... [
The building’s cross shape is a response to its location, the tip of a peninsula halfway between the historical core of Caen and a zone that is undergoing a process of urban transformation.
Located between the three buildings of the institution, the new pavilion of the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec creates, with three stacked and stepped boxes, a large foyer towards the city and a sequence of terraces towards the rear park. T
Located between Collins Avenue and Indian Creek, with direct views of the Atlantic Ocean, the complex includes three buildings: an arts center, a market, and a parking garage, which are interconnected and articulated through the public space. The ar
Located in the heart of downtown Santa Monica, the mixed-use complex achieves a strong interaction between interior program and exterior environment with a stepped building that creates terraces for a broad range of activities... [+]
The project wraps a tower and a horizontal plate in an ETFE membrane that is fritted to accept projections both from within and from the outside, creating a lifted public space for the city, the Sky Park, that brings new life to the surrounding green
The stepped form, possible thanks to a structural facade, is a response to its context: on a narrow plot with adjacent buildings, the tower stretches skywards and to the east, expanding the floor area and preserving the views over Madison Square Park
The skyscraper is designed as three stacked cubes connected by curved planes that rotate gradually to form a 45-degree angle with regards to Manhattan’s grid, engaging in dialogue with neighbor buildings like the Seagram or the Lever House... [+]
To prevent catastrophes with such devastating effects as hurricane Sandy, the project proposes a comprehensive strategy dealing with urban, landscape, and political issues and based on four concepts: resist, delay, store, and discharge... [+]
The infrastructure is a centralized facility that proposes a new model for the relationship between food producers and consumers through a series of interwoven program areas, rotated at different angles with regards to the urban grid... [+]
In the absence of being able to go and see its F/W 2021 menswear show in Milan, Prada is tantalising people’s sense of touch with what it describes as an ‘inviting and seductive’ series of spaces. Faux fur walls and cool marble and plaster floors cre
Porto now has an icon. The Casa da Música of Rem Koolhaas will soon appear in tourist brochures and attract the usual flux of architecture-savvy visitors. The enthusiasm for emblematic constructions that the ‘Guggenheim effect’ has awakened in polit
This monograph was begun twenty years ago, started to take shape ten years later, and finally comes to light now, when all of us involved in it have changed, and so has the world. An explanation of the delay is in order, along with some information o
The cynical lucidity of Rem Koolhaas is fascinating and perverse. An apologist of urban chaos and metropolitan congestion, this Dutchman born in Rotterdam in 1944 has placed a sharp pupil and a muscular mind at the service of a cruel mission. The Lil
Jacob will never forget the day Rem Koolhaas introduced him to the pleasures of meat. The son of the director of the Seattle Public Library had decided to give up his vegetarian diet and the architect treated him to dinner at Wild Ginger, ordering al
The controversial Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas received the year 2000 Pritzker Prize in front of the ciclopean walls of the city of Jerusalem.
These are times of toxic talent and bitter heroes. The French novelist Michel Houellebecq and the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas fall under this category of mediatic figures who practice social criticism through extreme integration in a landscape they
History will absolve RobertVenturi.The great American architect and theorist preached, back in the sixties and seventies, a pop architecture that was more attentive to the ordinary than to the heroic, more sensitive to common tastes than to the refin
The new art museums of Koolhaas in Las Vegas eloquently express the commercialization and trivialization of high culture in the contemporary world.
And New York in the distance. The results of the Ground Zero competition were announced on 27 February, and the next day The New York Times graciously divided its front page between a picture of an ecstatic Daniel Libeskind beside the model of his pr
I'am glad it’s all over. This joint venture between Rem and Jacques was doomed from the start. — You mean to say you were hoping it would fail. Mixing fire and water never appealed to you. — On the contrary! Rem thought that many were waiting to be d
With the exhibition and book Content, Rem Koolhaas strikes again. The provocative Dutch architect sums up the past seven years of his career with a show in Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie that scatters 300 objects and models in the interior of Mies van
