Rem spurns archive offer

Fears are growing over the future of one of the world’s largest and most significant architectural archives after the collapse of a proposed £900,000 deal between Rem Koolhaas’s practice OMA and the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

OMA said this week it had rejected the offer for the collection, which dates back to 1975 and includes 20,000 boxes of material, because it was too low and included rights to future work.