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OMA (Rem Koolhaas/Floris Alkemade), FAA+XDGA (Floris Alkemade/Xaveer de Geyter). Transformation of the Entrepôt Macdonald. Paris

Aurora Fernández Per - May 10, 2010. 10:00

The works commissioned to convert the Macdonalds warehouse to a huge hybrid have already started.

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Archived in: Public spaces Aurora Fernández Per Koolhaas, Rem OMA Hybrid buildings Paris a+t 33-34. HYBRIDS III FAA+XDGA

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Rem Koolhaas: 'All architectures are survivors'

a+t - December 21, 2009. 12:00

Full version of the authors of the interview published in the El País Babelia supplement with the title Vivimos un urbanismo loco (We are living through a crazy urbanism) (19/12/2009).
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Archived in: a+t Aurora Fernández Per Javier Mozas Koolhaas, Rem Córdoba

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MIES-OMA. IIT Chicago

- October 2, 2008. 12:45

IIT Chicago, published in New Materiality I

In his first project in America, Mies puts his Puritan philosophy to practice (see The moral condition of materials, by Javier Mozas) and, adapting to the urban grid of Chicago, he lays out a campus split into two by the elevated tracks of the Chicago L.
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Archived in: The City Civic Facilities Javier Arpa Koolhaas, Rem Mies van der Rohe Chicago OMA a+t 23. New Materiality I

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Miestakes

- May 29, 2008. 17:44

Article written by Rem Koolhaas, published in a+t 23. New Materiality I

Trouble. According to statistics, a student and his or her parents decide, within five seconds of arrival, whether to apply to a given university or not.
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Archived in: Civic Facilities Koolhaas, Rem Mies van der Rohe Chicago Rem Koolhaas a+t 23. New Materiality I

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The Architecture of Value Engineering

- May 27, 2008. 15:54

Article written by Aaron Betsky

The new Student Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology marks the transition from the era of “God is in the detail” to that of “No money, no details”. From Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s fetishism about the appearance of construction and its absolute relationship to the modulation of spatial relations we have arrived at Rem Koolhaas’ desire to make buildings that are appropriate and critical condensers of existing technologies and social relations into spaces so complex that they cannot be defined in static terms and planes that graphically represent those enabling conditions.
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Archived in: Civic Facilities Koolhaas, Rem Mies van der Rohe Aaron Betsky Chicago a+t 23. New Materiality I

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