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Eeek! See Starchitects Transform Into Creepy Trick-Or-Treaters
images © Building Satire Building Satire, an architectural site we love for not taking itself too seriously, is diving right into the Halloween spirit. Their Architect’s Appearance/Morbid Models post...
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Is Koolhaas To Blame For Rotterdam Art Heist?
image © artinfo There’s a lot of finger-pointing going on in light of the latest art heist in Rotterdam, and someone thinks Rem Koolhaas is to blame! No, the starchitect did not jump in and burglarize...
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Unveiled: 425 Park Ave Finalist Designs By Hadid, OMA, And Rogers
Image © Foster + Partners When it was announced earlier this month that Foster + Partners had triumphed in the starchitect throw-down to design 425 Park Avenue , we wondered how the winning design...
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Here’s What You Missed This Week: 10/19
Nettleton 198 by SAOTA from our Top Ten: Playboy Architecture We had a big week here at Architizer. We’re just launched the A+ Awards, and it’s shaping up to be biggest architecture awards program out...
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Watch OMA’s “De Rotterdam” Top Out In Two Minutes!
OMA’s massive De Rotterdam complex, an interconnected “vertical city”and the largest building in the Netherlands, topped out last week. To mark the event, OMA Rotterdam office posted a time-lapse on...
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Making Spectacular Architecture A Reality: Arup’s Rory McGowan
CCTV Headquarters. Photo © Iwan Baan By Karen Wong Karen Wong is the Deputy Director at the New Museum and an Architizer A+ Awards juror. In an on-going series, she profiles the latest and most...
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OMA Revives The Spaceship Typology In Qatar
Qatar National Library by OMA Plop! That’s the sound of OMA dropping another one of their post-2007 space ships in the Gulf. This time it’s a national library for Qatar, and it kinda looks like a Star...
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Rem Koolhaas Officially Confirmed As Director Of 2014 Venice Biennale
Let’s be honest, this news doesn’t come as much of a surprise — rumors have been circulating for months linking famed architect Rem Koolhaas with the world’s biggest art fair. But finally the Board of...
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When (Hairy) Rem Met Zaha
From an anonymous Chinese twitter comes this vintage photo of a very young Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas. The picture, which, for the record, is very definitely fake (check out Rem’s floating hands,...
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The Ultimate Layover? OMA Plans Residential District At New Doha Airport
Detail of phase 3B (aviation campus). Workers at Qatar’s soon-to-open Hamad International Airport in Doha can look forward to more than HOK’s ripple-roofed shopping mecca. Once OMA‘s 30-year master...
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OMA Unveils Funky New Furniture Line During Milan Design Week
Milan Design Week is in full swing! And among the exhibitions we’re most excited to check out? “Tools for Life,” OMA‘s collection of stacked, adjustable, and motorized furniture designed for the...
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Friday Fun: Dogs Who Look Like Starchitects
If you’re anything like, um, everyone else who uses the Internet, you spend a good chunk of your time online looking at animal photos. But while the World Wide Web abounds with images of writers and...
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Oedipal Complex: BIG And OMA Vie For Miami Beach Convention Center Masterplan
BIG’s masterplan (top) and OMA’s (bottom) Miami Beach is heating up as two of the biggest international architecture firms compete for the masterplan of its convention center area. High-profile...
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Peter Zumthor’s LACMA Design Revealed!
Architects who take Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) commissions sure don’t have it easy. William Pereira’s original 1965 design for a museum floating above a landscape of pools and fountains...
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OMA-Designed Bridge Explores Infrastructure As Public Space
OMA has unveiled its design for a new bridge over the river Garonne in Bordeaux, France—one of two contenders for a project that will connect a new housing development with the rest of the city. The...
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Big Surprise: Architect Designs House For A Narcissist
The most recent issue of Vanity Fair, the New York-based fashion and “culture” magazine, touches on a field not normally broached by the publication—architecture. Of course, this rare spotlight for the...
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OMA Wins Big In Bid For Miami Convention Center
After several months of heated contest for the Miami Beach Convention Center Redevelopment project, the Miami Beach City Commission chose Rem Koolhaas and OMA’s curvy, contemporary proposal as the...
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