Rem Koolhaas
Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec
Denmark-based architecture firm BIG teamed up with Fugere Architectes to create this proposal for the Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec competition. The main feature of the design is a grand green roof that slopes at quite a precarious angle, but is accessible for people to walk on. The sweeping form surrounds two […]
Waterfront city by OMA
Rem Kolhaas and his company finished work on master plan for developer Napheel. It will grow in the center of Dubai and will be build on incredible 14 000 000 square metres. The biggest part of the project is square island, where is also „big eye“.
OMA and a mega project in Persian gulf
Rem Koolhaas had created a huge tourist village called Jebel al Jais Mountain Resort, on a mountain in the United Arab Emirates. The concept rised from analyses, that in UAE, the relaxation has become the ubiquitous condition and it has to be attractive. So OMA decided not to convert the nature, as it usual in […]
OMA in Shenzhen
OMA won the competition to design China’s Shenzhen Stock Exchange building in December last year. Main conception is based on the essence of the stock market as speculation and the desire to create a building that is beyond symbolism for an almost virtual stock market.A few people are critical about the form, but at […]
Conflict of Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster
Rem Koolhaas […]
Prada store by OMA
A new, quite small project of Prada store in Beverly Hills, in California, USA, was designed by Rem Koolhaas /OMA/. The most inificiant part of project is absence of fasade, so the 50 metres long building naturally turns to the street. There are glass cones on the street floor which invite people to come […]
The balloon goes up in Hyde Park
Architect Rem Koolhaas and designer Cecil Balmond tell Dominic Bradbury why they have created an ‘anti-building’ at the Serpentine Gallery
It seems extraordinary that Rem Koolhaas, one of the most radical and innovative architects of our age, has never built in Britain. Then again, that sort of thing usually gets said about one superstar architect or […]
