Showing posts with label Rem Koolhaas. Show all posts
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OMA by Rem Koolhaas, & Ole Sheeren. CCTV Tower

map: Guanghua Lu, BeijingChaoyang, China An adjacent building in the complex caught on fire by fireworks on Feb 9th 2009, before the building's scheduled completion in May 2009. It was to have the Beijing Mandarin Oriental Hotel
The fire extinguished: should the building be demolished or rebuilt? Read more




:::THE FACT
- On the bridge where the two leaning legs of the office meet there is a glass floor 525 feet above ground.

:::THE QUOTE
"The project is one of the most visionary since modernism and beyond" Tina di Carlo, assistant curator of architecture and design at the Museum for Modern Art (MoMA)

:::THE CRITIC
"it is a dazzling reinvention of the skyscraper, using size not to dominate but to embrace the viewer." Paul Goldberger for The New Yorker. June 30, 2008. Read the article


:::THE LINKS

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Rem Koolhaas, Oma & Joshua Ramus. Seattle Public Library




:::THE FACT
- a grand staircase transformed into an open auditorium, its side aisles form a stairway that descends to the 4th avenue entrance floor
- The books are placed along a “book spiral,” on a continuous four-story ramp

:::THE QUOTE
"It's a very specific culture here, (...) There is a very highly developed common sensibility and a highly developed sense of solidarity between the rich and the poor. I think it's the only part of America where the rich are angst-ridden and want to do good. It is also a culture where many people have been involved in the digital world. What connects everyone is a dedication to reason and to reasoning, and I think that enabled us to do the project and explains the way it turned out." Rem Koolhaas

:::THE CRITIC
"The rap on modernism is that it comes in just two flavors-the cold perfection of Mies or a cacophonous experimentalism that often seems more about fashion than architecture. The Seattle Public Library points to a third way, a new maturity" read more by Lynn Becker

:::THE LINKS
"Forbidden cities" by Paul Goldberger for The Newyorker
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Joshua Prince-Ramus of REX and Rem Koolhaas of OMA. Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre







: : : ::::THE FACT
a new theatre chair is one of the main elements in this revolutionary concept in theatre design. Read more at dezeen.

: : : ::::THE QUOTE
"Unlike a typical theatre, the Wyly accommodates back-of-house and front-of-house areas above and beneath the auditorium rather than wrapped around it, liberating its perimeter – a glass façade with optional blackout blinds – for direct contact with the urban surroundings. Passersby have the chance to glimpse the action inside"
Rose Etherington for dezeen

: : : ::::THE CRITIC
"The thrill of this building, in the end, lies not in the details but in the transformative powers of the machine inside."
Nicolai Ouroussoff for The NY Times. Oct 14, 2009. Read article

read Christopher Hawthorne's critic for LA Times. Oct 7, 2009.

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