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OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Parc de La Villette, Paris, France, 1982

Not seen this colouring before. It’s as if they were pre-empting Tschumi’s winning proposal.

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OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Parc de la Villette, Paris, France, 1982

It’s nice to see this in 3D.

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Boredom + Printer + Rem Koolhaas

Jacques de Meuron, amazing.

In 1989 OMA designed a multifuctional sportscomplex with i.a. a swimming pool and ice skate ring (zwembad and ijsbaan in Dutch) aptly named IJsbad…

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Where is your question mark.

Guide to forming OMA’s CCTV Building out of a solid block of material.

(I finally went to OMA/Progress at the Barbican this weekend, it was stunning and brilliant and almost overwhelming there was so much to see. There was no photography allowed but I got this sneaky photo (hence the quality) when staff weren’t looking, I think Rem would be okay with it.)

The Asian City of Tomorrow, from S,M,L,XL by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau

Preliminary concept sketches for S,M,L,XL by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, presented at the AA’s Book Machine exhibition.

Texts reads, from left to right:

1. The book is conceived as a block of information.
2. The number represent six “families” of projects presented in the book. Each of these groups is presented in a differenct spirit - in a form appropiate to its contents.
3. These two components, the Dictionary and the project “families” run on parallel tracks throughout the book … Through their proximity, these incongruous parts activate each other.
4. Each spread within this block is a moment in time - a freeze-frame … the typography no longer has to pretend coherence for the entire length of the book. Instead, it will be a sequence of calibrated episodes…the typography equivalent of the plot.

When Buildings Attack, from “Content” by Rem Koolhaas

My favourite is Casa da Musica. Has it even got eyes? Mess you right up.

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Kool(haas)hand by Chris Papasader

AMAZING.

Follow my friend here, his Tumblr will be full of archi-lolz! That’s all Tumblr’s for, really.

I’ve renewed Mutations by Rem Koolhaas (and others), which has a week-long loan, 13 times. I haven’t read it yet. I will though. But the online renewal system our library has is pretty stupid because I’ll pretty much just renew it until I graduate.

You hear that? That’s the sound of the system crashing.

Model of OMA’s Casa de Musica, Porto

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OMA’s PRADA Transformer in cinema mode, I’ve never seen inside it before. It’s totally sci-fi, like Blade Runner or 12 Monkeys.

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Oh, this? Just made a paper model of OMA’s Seattle Library. No biggie. 

Make your own here.