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Rem Koolhaas

June 2022

  • Nigel Coates for Portrait of the Artist. Photograph by Felix Clay.

    Architect Nigel Coates: ‘I like spaces that made you wonder. I was trying to softly seduce people’

    The architect says his struggles as a gay man armed him with a courage to break all the rules

April 2022

  • The Audrey Irmas Pavilion for the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, by OMA

    Sacred space or corporate lobby? OMA’s temple pavilion rises in Los Angeles

    It’s designed by Rem Koolhaas’s studio – but the $98m Audrey Irmas Pavilion could have done with a little more divine inspiration

December 2021

  • Virgil Abloh, the artistic director at Louis Vuitton.

    Virgil Abloh obituary

    Artistic director at Vuitton whose own label, Off-White, challenged the fashion establishment

February 2020

  • ‘Its boredom is hypnotic, its banality breathtaking’ … the world’s largest building, the Tesla Gigafactory, embodies the new architecture.

    'The countryside is where the radical changes are': Rem Koolhaas goes rural

    The seer of sizzling city architecture now says the countryside is where the future is being built – and it’s a ‘toxic mix’. Ahead of a major Guggenheim show, he explains his epiphany

January 2020

  • Brighton college roof terraces with running track and sea views

    Brighton College’s Sports and Science Centre review – Hogwarts meets George Lucas

    Brighton College’s new building, designed by OMA, is an expression of global ambition

September 2019

  • Taking the floor: Rotor workers restore the civil engineering building at Val Benoît University, Liège.

    Observer Design
    Meet the inventors who want to upgrade your life

    These designers are rethinking how we dress, recycle waste and even dye our hair

July 2018

  • The Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean Nouvel, opened last year.

    How landmark buildings became weapons in a new Gulf war

    Across the Gulf region, states are vying with one another to create ever grander museums and towers

May 2018

  • OMA’s Blox project in Copenhagen, the new home of the Danish Architecture Centre

    Urban jumble: the building that wants to upset the calm of Copenhagen

    OMA’s Blox project stacks a museum, offices, gym, restaurant and housing in a provocative attempt to condense the thrilling energy of a city into a single structure – but the result is a gloomy glass monolith

January 2018

  • A model at Prada’s show in Milan wears a design by Rem Koolhaus that was like a reverse jetpack.

    Prada's Milan menswear show is all about nylon on an industrial scale

    It wasn’t quite a greatest hits but Miuccia Prada’s fans would recognise the much-loved prints, lipsticks and cagoules

January 2017

  • Manchester’s proposed Factory on the site of the former Granada Studios.

    Manchester's Factory arts building gets go-ahead

    Rem Koolhaas-designed £110m centre seen by city council as ‘genuine cultural counterbalance to London’

August 2016

  • Film still: REM – A Tomas Koolhaas Film, documentary on the architect Rem Koolhaas

    First look review
    Rem review – jet-setting portrait of world’s most talked-about architect

    Globe-trotting documentary by Rem Koolhaas’s son Tomas finds the film-maker racing to keep up with his 71-year-old father and struggling to achieve objectivity

June 2016

  • Pierre Lassonde pavilion

    Pierre Lassonde pavilion review – OMA lifted up a park to slide in a building

    The new pavillion for the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec has a sense of humour and humility, and is designed above all for showcasing art

May 2016

  • Holland Green

    Holland Green review: private property with a public heart

    In a rare British project, Rem Koolhaas’s OMA have designed a luxury west London apartment block whose sale will partly fund the new Design Museum – the old Commonwealth Institute – next door. It was a tricky brief…

April 2016

  • ‘Never failing to provoke of fascinate’: Zaha Hadid in the auditorium of her Guangzhou opera house.

    Zaha Hadid, 1950-2016: an appreciation

    The Observer’s architecture critic, who himself worked with Zaha Hadid, pays tribute to her provocative and always uncompromising talent

February 2016

  • Proposal for 'floating urbanism' in Lagos by Kunlé Adeyemi

    Guardian Lagos week
    'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi

    In 1997 two architects set out to rethink Lagos, an African megacity that had been largely abandoned by the state. Amid the apparent chaos and crime, they discovered remarkable patterns of organisation. Two decades later, Rem Koolhaas and Kunlé Adeyemi discuss the past, present and future of the city – and reveal why their own project never saw the light of day

December 2015

  • Sim City stack … The Timmerhuis by OMA rises on to Rotterdam’s skyline like a pixelated mountain.

    A floating fortress: Rem Koolhaas's flawed gift to his home city

  • Damien Hirst's golden mammoth

    The Faena district: where Michael Nyman meets a golden mammoth

November 2015

  • The proposed £110m Factory arts centre in Manchester.

    Rem Koolhaas wins Factory design project as Manchester goes Dutch

    Architect wins international contest to create £110m arts centre as chancellor pledges extra £9m a year to fund ‘northern powerhouse’ showpiece

September 2015

  • Oliver Wainwright

    Architecture and design blog
    Why is Zaha Hadid given a harder time than her starchitect rivals?

    Oliver Wainwright
    On the day Hadid was awarded RIBA’s gold medal, her Radio 4 walkout shows she is held to a different standard to the likes of Foster and Koolhaas

June 2015

  • Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Zaha Hadid in 2000 and at Flambards theme park near Cornwall, 2015CompositePhotographSerpentine Gallery/Ben Mostyn

    Beach cafe, billionaire's retreat, wedding marquee: second lives of the Serpentine pavilions

    Everyone from Ai Weiwei to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens after they are packed away?
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