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Posts tagged 'Rem Koolhaas'

Towns in Britain: Jones the Planner

An account of Britain’s cities castigates recent “regeneration” efforts, but isn’t ready to give up on the transformative potential of planning, says Sukhdev Sandhu Jones

Opinion

Rem Koolhaas: countryside architecture

Rem Koolhaas thinks that too little attention is paid to the countryside, where change is happening at a faster rate than in most cities. In

Architecture

Claude Parent: Marx and angles

Claude Parent’s radical architectural theories – rejecting “bourgeois” verticality for ramped cities and sloped buildings – chimed with the spirit of 1960s Paris Working together with Paul

Architecture

Venice Biennale 2014 – Japanese pavilion: Architecture detectives

The Venice Biennale Japan pavilion’s take on the theme of “Absorbing Modernity” focuses on a period in the 1970s when, with the country rushing into the

Architecture

Interview: Ole Scheeren

Ole Scheeren, one of architecture’s brightest talents, left OMA in 2010 to found his own practice. Last year, he talked to Icon about CCTV, his

Architecture

Phyllis Lambert on Mies and contemporary architecture

The recipient of this year’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale discusses her career, Mies and the state of contemporary architecture. For

Architecture

Profile: Fernando Romero

Fernando Romero, who once worked for Rem Koolhaas, is married to the daughter of the richest man in the world, for whom he built the

Architecture

Tomas Koolhaas: film about his father Rem

Like Nathaniel Kahn, Tomas Koolhaas has made a film about his father, the celebrated architect, but this is no intimate family portrait – Rem himself

Architecture

De Rotterdam by OMA

The building sits next to UN Studio’s Erasmus bridge (Image: Ossip van Duivenbode/OMA) Rotterdam is not a pretty city. Almost completely flattened during the Second

Architecture

Seattle Public Library

If you’re as good a writer as Rem Koolhaas, the problem is that occasionally you will be expected to build something that lives up to

Design

Editor's choice

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

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




Architects

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

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

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

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