Learning The Lessons of Nixon (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rowan and Joe Originally uploaded by lisa.williams And it doesn’t even involve unicorns! While I was out in Boulder for the summer, Evan and the kids came to visit me for ten days. One morning we went out to the coffeeshop to pick up some coffee [...]
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Plan of Dreamland, watercolor by Rem Koolhaas In the evolution of the 20th-century city, New York played a crucial role. Gotham haunted the imagination of everyone from John Dos Passos and H.G. Wells to Le Corbusier and the German Expressionist director Fritz Lang. A man-made colossus, it embodied in its concrete grid and in the tidal [...]
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
CCTV chopper above Jianguomen Beijing's Ming and Qing dynasty emperors did not allow anyone to build structures higher than those of the Forbidden City, and their suspicion of tall buildings was passed on to Beijing's communist rulers, at least until the late 1980s. The Beijing government has also never allowed aircraft to fly over the city center with a few exceptions such as when national military...
The Herald (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Cate Devine goes walkabout with one of the world’s most renowned architects as he reveals his plans for Glasgow’s new Maggie’s centre
Design Sojourn (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Domus Magazine has recently launched a signature edition offshoot called Domus d'Autore . This first issue, entrusted to Editor-Architect Rem Koolhaas, was designed to allow readers to listen "...to the voice of those who know how to look beyond current confines and have the strength to direct and influence our way of perceiving the city and the spaces beyond it."
architecture.mnp (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,566655,00.html Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas talks about new trends in architecture and urban development, the end of the European city, the rise of Dubai, Russia and China, the obsession with XXXL and the difference between the people who design buildings for a living and “star architects.” [click the title of this post to read the interview]
worldwide-news.net (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas talks about new trends in architecture and urban development, the end of the European city, the rise of Dubai, Russia and China, the obsession with XXXL and the difference between the people who design buildings for a living and “star architects.” Go to news source
worldwide-news.net (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas talks about new trends in architecture and urban development, the end of the European city, the rise of Dubai, Russia and China, the obsession with XXXL and the difference between the people who design buildings for a living and “star architects.” Go to news source
Singapore Property News (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Print Article > > Back to the article July 18, 2008 $3b Farrer condo boasts sensuous, curvy towers Renowned architect Zaha Hadid behind their design; project to be launched in 2009 By Joyce Teo PROPERTY giant CapitaLand has unveiled the 'branded' upmarket designs for a $3 billion residential project in Farrer Road that it aims to launch next year. The as-yet-unnamed condominium boasts a series of sensuous...
China Digital Times (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Vanity Fair has yet another story about the architectural marvels going up in Beijing in time for the Olympic Games: Just as many of New York City’s most iconic landmarks rose in breathtakingly brief succession a century ago, Beijing has been re-inventing itself since 2001 with a rush of showstopping buildings ...
*michael parekh on IT* (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
NEXT IN LINE A few days ago I posted about a unique building going up in Beijing, the new CCTV tower designed by Rem Koolhas, with critical praise by Paul Goldberger in the New Yorker. Today, the New York Times has a feature piece on the architectural renaissance going on all across China, lead in many cases by prominent architects from around the world. The piece also has a great picture of the Koolhas...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
The country's new architecture exudes an aura that has as much to do with intellectual ferment as economic clout.
Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ide (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
"To reinvent institutions, reinvent laws, reinvent a society and trying to find organs that express and make it work — that is of course unique to this moment here." —Architect Rem Koolhaas on his design for the $730-million headquarters of CCTV, China's state-owned TV network . " Censorship was even tougher for TV and radio with journalists working for state-run CCTV receiving a daily warning when...
*michael parekh on IT* (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
BOXY PRETZEL It's refreshing to see that not every major city in a fast, growing, developing country is racing to build the tallest skyscrapers around. There's a unique form of skyscraper going up in Beijing that will be re-defining how we think of skyscrapers. This New Yorker piece by Architect critic Paul Goldberger explains: "(Ole) Scheeren is the co-architect, with Rem Koolhaas, of the most eagerly...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Men's fashion seems to be backing away from the endless gender jousting, with a genuine attempt to bring equilibrium to the male image. And the focus is on the chest itself, especially the upper part.
