#rem koolhaas

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Rem Koolhaas

Delirious New York, 1978

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Educatorium (1995-97) in Utrecht, the Netherlands, by Office for Metropolitan Architecture

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MASTER POST: Spear House, Miami, 1974 - 1984. Featured in several movies and television series, including Miami Vice. Designed further by Arquitectonica. Originally a project of Rem Koolhaas and Laurinda Spear, 1974.

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"Marco Marilungo Pictor" Art

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Prada

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OMA / Rem Koolhaas, Parc de la Villette, Model, Paris, France, 1983-1984

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Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I, 1514 VS OMA, Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal, 1999-2005

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La Villette park Paris, France 1982 Michel Corajoud (1937–2014), architect Elia Zenghelis (1937–), architect Rem Koolhaas (1944–), architect OMA (1975–), architect

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Oma, Seattle Public Library, 2004

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Arbres de Noël Pour les amateurs de (bonne) architecture. - source Roberto Hernández Traba via Great Architects (Frank Lloyd Wright - Le Corbusier - Antoni Gaudí.

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OMA PATIO VILLA, 1988 Rotterdam, Netherlands Image © Hans Werlemann

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...I consider myself somebody with an unlimited amount of curiosity in an almost unlimited amount of directions.

Rem Koolhaas, Trying to Keep Up with Rem Koolhaas, by Alexandra Wolfe, Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2014

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AB+C illustrated: Delirious New York 🏙️

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[obsessedbyneon]

Netherlands Dance Theatre, The Hague, 1984-1987. Designed by Rem Koolhaas. Has been demolished for something uglier.

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"The Leap Frog Railway is a special pier with a track leading nowhere, on which Reynolds stages the impossible: two bulletlike trains move toward each other at full speed on the same track, to meet an absurdist challenge once posed by Mark Twain as "the only thing that Yankee Ingenuity had not yet accomplished ... the successful passing of two car- loads on a single line of tracks."

The Leap Frog cars rely on a technical invention that mimics animal copulation. They carry a pair of bent rails on their backs that allow them to glide over and under each other. (On the return trip the cars change position.) "The passengers in breathless excitement momentarily antici- pating disaster, realizing that their lives are in jeopardy, clinging to one another for safety, closing their eyes to the impending danger....

The cars crash into one another, 32 people are hurled over the heads of 32 others.... They are suddenly awakened to a realization of the fact that they have actually collided with another car and yet they find them- selves safe and sound proceeding in the same direction in which they started...."

Ostensibly the Leap Frog Railway is a prototype "to reduce the mortality rate due to collisions on railways," but in this apotheosis of the tradition of barely averted disaster Reynolds has blended the mechanics of sex with the imminence of death in a single respectable experience."

Delirious New York

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Rem Koolhaas: Generic City