Koolhaas nostalgic for Beijing hutongs

"Rem Koolhaas has some photographs to show me. Not glossy shots of some earth-shattering new building he has created but small snaps of street life in the age-old courtyards of Beijing. Known as "hutongs", these are tight webs of hotchpotch homes and alleys gathered around...

Clash of the Titans

Rem Koolhaas and Peter Eisenman will duke it out, in a conversation moderated by Phyllis Lambert, at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal, on June 8. More info inside... From the official press release: The Canadian Center for Architecture presents Urgency, a...

Koolhaas, Foster clash over ‘similar’ designs

No plagiarism but we were first, says Rem, as Foster’s deny any real likeness between schemesTwo of the world’s leading architects, Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster, have clashed over claims of a “remarkable similarity” between two of their most ambitious...

Koolhaas and His Omnipotent Masters

According to Rem Koolhaas, there are three seminal events in the history of architecture: Samson tearing down the house of the Philistines in 1100 BC, the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001 AD, and his design in 2006 AD of the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing....

Rem demands boycott

Koolhaas campaigns to overhaul star-studded design competitions after Gazprom HQ controversyRem Koolhaas has called on architecture’s superstars to join him in a campaign to overhaul the competition system, which he has condemned as “hideous” and a drain on...

OMA's Race to Construct in China

For Ole Scheeren, the lead architect of the controversial new China Central Television (CCTV) headquarters in Beijing, the "eureka" moment came during a site visit in April, 2002. Touring the abandoned motorcycle factories that occupied the land, just east of the...

Rothschild Hires Rem Koolhaas to Design New London Headquarters

Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd., the family- owned U.K. investment bank that has been based in the same London building since 1809, hired Rem Koolhaas to design new headquarters in the city. Rothschild aims to move into the...

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...