Showing posts with label Rem Koolhaas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rem Koolhaas. Show all posts
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Rem Koolhaas discusses OMA‘s practice in an interview with Dutch Design Fashion Architecture:
"I don’t think you can make critical architecture because, in a sense, architecture always supports someone else’s impulse. On the other hand I think our architecture is thoroughly critical because every subject, every question, every ambition is analysed and is placed on the operating table, as it were…"architect schools online
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OMA's proposal is one of the shortlisted entries for WEST KOWLOON CULTURAL DISTRICT Masterplan."We have tried to make the district a microcosm of the city in its combination of density and nature, discovering, to our own surprise, that we could realize the vast program and still preserve wide swaths of open space. An unsolicited part of our project is a Cultural Masterplan: a collaboration with experts from the cultural and financial worlds, based on a debriefing of Hong Kong’s stakeholders.
This cultural masterplan works in tandem with the physical plan, each informing and empowering the other. It tries to establish a new zone of creativity, interplay, and production on the basis of an existing infrastructure that, I can already testify, makes a mockery of the notion that Hong Kong has 'no culture'."
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Project: Seattle Public Library
Design architect: Rem Koolhaas OMA
Local architects: LMN Architects, Seattle
Location: Seattle, Washington
Size: 362,987 square feet
After 4 year of the project's completion, the Seattle Public Library celebrates it's "Libraries for All" building program. The Central Library in downtown Seattle was opened in May 2004, which was designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas.
The building is divided into eight horizontal layers, each varying in size to fit its function. A structural steel and glass skin unifies the multifaceted form and defines the public spaces in-between.
Here is an interview between Seattle Times and Rem Koolhaas. During the interview, Mr Rem Koolhaas has stated,
"Basically the Books Spiral was kind of for us an architectural way of undoing some of the sadness of the typical library, where it kind of really divided in a number of compartments that have very dull-sounding names like "humanity," "sciences," blah, blah, blah. We felt that those categories are not necessarily the most exciting and encouraging categories in terms of dividing a library, so it enabled us to create an undivided sequence of books where of course the divisions actually exist and all the kind of cataloging systems perform their task, but the point was to create a kind of single, undivided sequence, because we felt that one of the points of a library was that there are accidents and that you find yourself in areas where you didn't expect to be and where you kind of look at books that are not necessarily the books that you're aiming for. So it was to create a kind of almost arbitrariness — or to create a kind of walking experience, an almost kind of urban walk ... a kind of Rotterdam, a very efficient, direct aiming for limited destinations."
"The stacks, arranged along a continuous spiral ramp contained within a four-story slab, reinforce a sense of a world organized with machine-like precision."
Nicolai Ouroussoff, Los Angeles Times
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House Construction
"We live in an era of completions, not new beginnings. The world is running out of places where it can start over."
El Croquis OMA / Rem Koolhaas
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House Construction
The tallest tower in Latin America, by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
Celebrating a historic moment with the emergence of a new skyscraper: Torre Bicentenario, completion in 2010. The 200th anniversary of Mexico’s Independence and the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution.OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture)
Torre Bicentenario
Mexico, Mexico City
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House Construction
"Defined both visually and spatially by its faceted exterior, the Casa da Musica invigorates the traditional concert hall with its daring interior forms and innovative use of materials. Wave-like corrugated glass is used in both the 1300 seat grand auditorium and its smaller 350 seat counterpart. Material transparency allows for each space to reveal its contents to the city; making visible an array of performances and cultural events. " more Casa Da Musica,
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House Construction
"All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures.Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark."
Rem Koolhaas
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Remodeling Interior Design
The office of Rem Koolhaas is on the seventh floor of an unremarkable office block in Rotterdam – a city “without any demands, without any scene, without any culture, without any temptations,” he says. “we live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.”"architects have never been the main authors of cities. And to the extent that they are, they have only been able to do that in the case of extreme authoritarian systems. And that is a fantastic paradox or tragedy of the architect, that our better impulses are connected to the utopian, but the utopian only works when connected to power. But I think that in any case and with the size of cities now, no one is in charge.”
Rem Koolhaas
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Remodeling Interior Design
"The stacks, arranged along a continuous spiral ramp contained within a four-story slab, reinforce a sense of a world organized with machine-like precision."Rem Koolhaas OMA
Seattle Public Library
Seattle, Washington
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Remodeling Interior Design
“We wanted to provide something currently absent from the college, a space with the scale to facilitate collaboration. We also saw an opportunity to reconnect the gorge to the north side of the Arts Quad,”
Rem Koolhaas
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