Rem Koolhaas

Prada S/S 2019 Milan Fashion Week Men’s

Mood board: The look for S/S 2019 was coy and cool – embracing perhaps a new found sensuality for the Prada man, Miuccia Prada backstage spoke about ‘sexiness’ when referring to the collection. Here, the look was wonderfully recognisable and...

OMA’s Lafayette Anticipations in Paris is a ‘curatorial machine’

Architects often talk about flexible buildings, interiors that can easily adapt to different needs, ready to accommodate several functions. But you’d be hard pressed to find one that took the meaning of this as literally as Rem Koolhaas’ practice OMA...

OMA’s Ellen van Loon on her architectural ascent, embracing the impossible, and boxing clever on Copenhagen’s harbourfront

For most architects, leaving university means kissing the crazy ideas and impossible designs goodbye and buckling down to pragmatism and compromise; not for Ellen van Loon. The Dutch architect, a partner at Rem Koolhaas’ OMA since 2002, approaches her projects...

Book club: inside OMA’s Qatar National Library

Bucking the trend for digitalisation, this project, a large-scale library complex for Qatar, is one of OMA’s most striking works to-date. The scheme is impressive in scale and ambition, comprising within a single building the National Library, the Public Library, the University...

How robots are building the mega-architecture of tomorrow

OMA completes Fondazione Prada’s Torre in Milan

When the Fondazione Prada opened its doors in Milan to critical acclaim in 2015, the fashion, art and architecture worlds found a natural home in the OMA-designed complex. The site, a former distillery dating from 1910, has been widely covered...

Nylon icons: four design greats reimagine Prada’s synthetic signature

Prada is synonymous with elevating nylon into a must-have luxury material. Now, for the first time, as part of its Prada Invites project, the innovative Milanese house has invited four renowned creatives – Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Konstantin Grcic, Herzog...

The inaugural edition of Grand Basel was a masterclass in mechanical muses

While the world’s eyes were fixed on the Frankfurt Auto Show and its new clutch of concepts, design studies and shiny new cars, a far more modest event had just taken place down in Basel, Switzerland. Grand Basel is the...

Raw-Edges, Jasper Morrison, Patricia Urquiola and more get a theatrical backdrop

‘No designer creates a piece of furniture just to see it shown in a museum,’ says Constance Rubini, curator at Musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Design in Bordeaux. ’The objects are intended to have a life in the...

Loan ranger: Caen’s public library by OMA to complete in 2017

The Dutch ambassador to France hosted a dinner in Paris on Thursday evening to celebrate the new Alexis de Tocqueville library in Caen, designed by the Rotterdam-based architecture firm OMA and opening to the public on 14 January. While the...

The history of Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice and its transformation by OMA

All of Venice’s well-documented icons, its patinated, weather-battered palazzi, its Unesco-protected narrow streets, bridges and historical churches, appear to have been standing for eons. In a city so architecturally precious, where building regulations can be unsurprisingly strict, you’d be forgiven...

The people’s pottery: Urs Fischer’s public clay making takes Moscow

Today (June 10) marks the unveiling of the largest socially-engaged work of art in Moscow’s history. But that wasn’t the intent of artist Urs Fischer with his new show at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in the Russian capital...