Hankblog (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
From Space-City: Seattle Central Library architect Rem Koolhaas will return to the library to give a free talk at 2 p.m. Sept. 13 in the auditorium. It will be Koolhaas’ first public talk in Seattle since the Central Library opened to international raves four years ago. Koolhaas’ talk will be part of a daylong public celebration to [...]
Archinect (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Rem Koolhaas will give a presentation titled, �Public Space,� at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13 at The Seattle Public Library, Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Microsoft Auditorium. Koolhaas of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and former Seattleite Joshua-Prince Ramus were principal designers of the award-winning Central Library building, along with Seattle-based LMN Architects. The presentation,...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Film News: Film unit acquires rights to documentary -- Arthouse Films has acquired all English-speaking territories and French rights to a documentary on famed architect Rem Koolhaas.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Seattle Central Library architect Rem Koolhaas will return to the library to give a free talk at 2 p.m. Sept. 13 in the auditorium.
Curbed (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
On Friday, with a whimper and not with a boom, the Financial Times ran a story about new NYC architecture that, oh, by the way, featured the first-ever look at Rem Koolhaas' 23 East 22nd Street, the game-changing condo...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
We've already called the landmark Clock Tower on Madison Square Parkwhose condos and spaces will be designed by Versacethe new 15 Central Park West, and now the hotly-anticipated condo conversion has its very own Plaza-like rival: starchitect Rem Koolhaas's...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
As the Olympics kick off in Beijing, all eyes are on the architectural wonder of Herzog and de Meuron's Bird's Nest stadium, but check out how far along Rem Koolhaas' headquarters for China Central Television has come. What can we...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
How should architects respond to China's ethical record? Says Rem Koolhaas, when it comes to building there, "'a position of resistance seems somehow ornamental' - 'that it is egotistical to think that the government cares what you, as an architect, think about its human-rights or environmental record and might change its policies accordingly."...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
With all the recent talk about the Clock Tower and Herzog and de Meuron's 56 Leonard Street and Rem Koolhaas's 23 East 22nd Street, we were threatening to go five whole minutes without discussing 15 Central Park West. Luckily for...
Life Without Buildings (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
[image via ARTINFO] Rem Koolhaas’ most recent collaboration with Miuccia Prada isn’t a store in Dubai or a high-rise in New York, it’s an ambitious interdisciplinary arts center in Milan. Koolhaas will transform an industrial complex in the Italian city for the Prada Foundation, whose director says the project’s goal is “to create a force [...]
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Trailer to Possibility of an Island On September 10 France will get the chance to see Michel Houellebecq’s own film adaptation of The Possibility of an Island[1]. It was rumored that Rem Koolhaas would design the decors, but in the end he did not, I believe. Fernando Arrabal was prominently present at the film’s recording. Houellebecq is [...]
Archinect (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
What does the next collaboration between Rem Koolhaas and Miuccia Prada look like? The world is about to find out. ArtInfo
core77.com (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Nothing like a good repeat client, Prada have signed up Rem Koolhaas again to transform an early 20th-century industrial complex at Largo Isarco, in Milan, into the Prada Foundation's new headquarters. ...The new facility, scheduled for completion in three years, will house multimedia laboratories in addition to hosting a vast range of events, from concerts and cinema festivals to symposia on architecture...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Rem Koolhaas cuts a striking figure as he strides out in search of inspiration. Roaming the grounds of Gartnavel Hospital in Glasgow's west end, the renowned Dutch architect, dressed in black Prada, is checking out the three sites he's been offered on which to build his first-ever Maggie's Centre . The Herald
Archinect (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Zaha Hadid has begun redesigning the rundown industrial city of Kartal, Turkey ; Rem Koolhaas is designing Waterfront City, Dubai ; Daniel Libeskind is designing the downtown of Orestad , a five-kilometer-long urban area south of Copenhagen; David Chipperfield won a competition in March to create a plan for a new art and technology quarter in Segovia, Spain ; ... "We are seeing an emergence of a new...
