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Posts tagged 'Rem Koolhaas'

Rem Koolhaas on urban mobility

  The architect talks to Peter Smisek about how transport will shape the cities of the future, and why total connectivity might not be as

Architecture

Cars and our urban future

A two-day conference in Rotterdam featuring Rem Koolhaas revealed the European car industry to be confident in its future, but cautious about veering too far

Opinion

Garage Museum by OMA

Rem Koolhaas mixes preservation and provocation in Moscow, turning a Soviet-era workers’ canteen into a contemporary art space, says Edwin Heathcote Rem Koolhaas is utterly

Architecture

Fondazione Prada by OMA

Despite its gold cladding, the Rem Koolhaas’s latest building in Milan is no temple of ostentatious wealth, says Andrew Ayers. With its galleries housed around

Architecture

Satin Island by Tom McCarthy

Charles Holland enjoys a Pynchonesque novel set in the world of branding and “corporate anthropology” – with a suspiciously Koolhaas-like main character To start with,

Opinion

Sérgio Bernardes

Hotel Tropical Tambaú in João Pessoa, Brazil A documentary explores the radical designs that made Brazilian modernist, playboy and Niemeyer contemporary Sérgio Bernardes a star

Opinion

2014 Architecture Practice of the Year: OMA

Rem Koolhaas and his colleagues continue to create buildings in equal parts provocative, exasperating and brilliant. But its the persistent probing of architecture’s big and

Architecture

2014’s most popular articles

This year, Icon readers leapt upon articles featuring big names such as Bjarke Ingels, Rem Koolhaas and Peter Zumthor, as well as those about the

Opinion

Icon Awards 2014: The winners

This year’s awards ceremony took place last night in London. Here is the full list of winners OMA, Barber Osgerby, Martino Gamper and Piet Oudolf

Design

2014 Icon Awards shortlist: Architecture Practice of the Year

Robbrecht and Daem scooped last year’s title. Here are the nominees for the year’s best architecture firm. The category is sponsored by Scandinavian Business Seating

Architecture

Editor's choice

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

Design Icon: Alvar Aalto’s Armchair 400

Meet James Burial: The US artist bringing his playful aesthetic to the UK

The founder of Zieta Studio tells ICON how its experimental processes are moving forward

Roddy Clarke looks into Fritz Hansen’s new circular initiative and what the move means for its classic shell chairs

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Out of rubble: archigrest and topoScape reimagine Warsaw’s Uprising Mound as a living park and monument

Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway

Crafting heritage: 5 highlights from Budapest Design Week 2024




Architects

Out of rubble: archigrest and topoScape reimagine Warsaw’s Uprising Mound as a living park and monument

Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway

Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

A new exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center puts on show a bold response to rising waters

LA practice Kadre Architects uses design as a street-level tool for social change

A new book by Stefano Casciani offers an insight into Piero Lissoni’s work

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

Architecture Icon: How the Noguchi Musuem advances the appreciation of its founder’s art and legacy

Architecture Icon: Alvar and Aino Aalto’s house in Helsinki bears all the hallmarks of their approach to design


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Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

Design Icon: Alvar Aalto’s Armchair 400

Meet James Burial: The US artist bringing his playful aesthetic to the UK

The founder of Zieta Studio tells ICON how its experimental processes are moving forward

Roddy Clarke looks into Fritz Hansen’s new circular initiative and what the move means for its classic shell chairs

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Crafting heritage: 5 highlights from Budapest Design Week 2024

Ukrainian creative studio Gushka creates woollen items that bring a new life to ancestral crafts

Meet Studio Bovti: The German design duo expressing their inner child through experimental curiosity and a playful aesthetic


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Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

Design Icon: Alvar Aalto’s Armchair 400

Meet James Burial: The US artist bringing his playful aesthetic to the UK

The founder of Zieta Studio tells ICON how its experimental processes are moving forward

Roddy Clarke looks into Fritz Hansen’s new circular initiative and what the move means for its classic shell chairs

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Out of rubble: archigrest and topoScape reimagine Warsaw’s Uprising Mound as a living park and monument

Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway

Crafting heritage: 5 highlights from Budapest Design Week 2024