Architect of the Daring ; His Inflatable Pavilion Will Confound Expectations, but It's Rem Koolhaas's New City Building That Will Really Astonish
Evening Standard - London › June 20, 2006
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LONDON is a big, wilful, intractable city that likes to do things its own way. It has never taken kindly to architects who want to change its course. It makes the rules that architects have to follow, not the other way round.
Rem Koolhaas, seer, Dutch semi-Londoner, and possibly the greatest architect in the world, doesn't like being told what to do. His career is littered with projects where he has told his clients what he thought was right, refused to compromise, and sometimes lost the job. Yet now, 40 years after he first came to London as a student, since when he has shared his time between a West Hampstead f lat, an office in Rotterdam and the airports and hotels of the world, he is designing buildings here for the first time. As London is now often called the most exciting city in the world, and Koolhaas the most exciting architect, worlds will collide.See the full content of this document
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Architect of the Daring ; His Inflatable Pavilion Will Confound Expectations, but It's Rem Koolhaas's New City Building That Will Really Astonish
The question is whether Koolhaas and London are ready for each other.
Two of his projects are underway: this year's pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery, opening on 13 July, and a masterplan for a swathe of White City.But it's Koolhaas's newest plan that could be his most intrigu...See the full content of this document
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