Tag Archives: Rem Koolhaas

Skyscraper vs. skyscraper

Posted on November 16, 2015 by David Brussat

Hats off to Kristen Richards of ArchNewsNow.com for publishing a denunciation by CityLab of the (Toronto) Globe & Mail’s critic Eric Reguly’s piece “Why skyscrapers are killing great cities.” Otherwise we might not have seen the latter essay, which flies … Continue reading →

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BIG kicks Foster off 2 WTC?

Posted on May 5, 2015 by David Brussat

The idea that the developers of the 2 WTC megalith – the last major skyscraper of the World Trade Center rebuild – might send Sir Norman Foster packing delights me. The idea of booting the architect even as his tower … Continue reading →

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Imagine AIA’s neighborhood

Posted on April 20, 2015 by David Brussat

Then there’s this! Here are the 10 award-winners for 2015, just announced by the American Institute of Architects. Imagine throwing them together into a “neighborhood” alongside the winners of the AIA’s previous decades’ worth of residential design competitions. Consider how … Continue reading →

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Klaustoon klaustrophobia

Posted on January 23, 2015 by David Brussat

I’ve just put Klaustoons on my “Blogs I Follow” list. Here are two, one about the Walkie-Scorchie by Rafael Viñoly, who did the Birdshitcatcher Building (the Watson Center) on Thayer Street in Providence, and the other about Rem Koolhaas. The … Continue reading →

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Architecture’s slap in Charleston’s face

Posted on July 3, 2014 by David Brussat

Last week, Charleston, S.C., gave Clemson University the city’s official blessing to poke a stick in its own eye. Unless blocked in court, a school of architecture, modernist in design, will be built amidst the city’s historic district. In the … Continue reading →

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No kookhouse for Koolhaas

Posted on June 25, 2014 by David Brussat

Speaks for itself: SPIEGEL: Some people say that if architects had to live in their own buildings, cities would be more attractive today. Koolhaas: Oh, come on now, that’s really trivial. SPIEGEL: Where do you live? Koolhaas: That’s unimportant. It’s … Continue reading →

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Biennale beanball

Posted on June 23, 2014 by David Brussat

The 14th Venice Biennale opened June 7 and runs into November, the lalapalooza of world architecture, this year curated by Dutch starchitect Rem Koolhaas. The usual suspects of architecture criticism have had their go at it, and it has proved … Continue reading →

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Koolhaas’s biennale

Posted on June 2, 2014 by David Brussat

Rem Koolhaas is director of the latest Venice Biennale of Architecture, the big cheese of international architectural exhibitions, which begins on Saturday, June 7. Predictably differentiating himself from his ridiculous predecessors by using the biennale to do something intelligent, he … Continue reading →

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Column: Modern architecture’s coup d’etat

Posted on February 27, 2014 by David Brussat

How did modern architecture suddenly replace the traditional architecture that, by the 20th century, offered a wide variety of joyful styles to house human activity? Why, in just three decades, were three millennia of beauty replaced so entirely by ugliness … Continue reading →

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Klaustoon on Koolhaas and penises

Posted on February 24, 2014 by David Brussat

Here are two more cartoons, which I happened upon while researching the relationship of Walter Gropius and Joseph Hudnut at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design for Thursday’s column, which I must write tomorrow morning. More cartoons by Klaus are at … Continue reading →

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