location: Rotterdam
The special edition of Volume was compiled on the occasion of the International Design Forum Dubai held last May. Al Manakh is divided into three sections. The first two focus on recent developments in the Gulf region. Entitled Dubai Guide and edited…
According to the invitation, VOLUME will become: Magazine, Object, Space, Event, Debate, Webcast, Consultancy, Talkshow, Travel and Surprises. Brought together by the conviction that 'Architecture Must Go Beyond Itself', the three partners - the offi…
Rem's junk in Mies' space (20-11-2003) - about the Content exhibition in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.Glossy with Content (10-2-2004) - about Content the book.Koolhaas Still for Initiates (26-11-2003) - a…
The first flick through is a let-down. Reprints of previously published texts such as Junkspace and Miestakes interspersed with a countless cut-and-paste references to well-worn cultural icons: the Bomb, Lady Di, Mao, the US President, Saddam, Schwar…
Set back from the quayside behind a tree, the building looks as though it's trying to efface itself. At first glance it looks like a simple cube of glass and metal framed by an L-shaped perimeter wall built almost entirely of aluminium sheet. Is that…
Architects, artists and researchers were asked to consider what methods might be developed and deployed to give form to new urbanism. According to Edward Soja (Professor of Planning at the University of California), physical segregation will increase…
Architects, artists and researchers were asked to consider what methods might be developed and deployed to give form to new urbanism. According to Edward Soja (Professor of Planning at the University of California), physical segregation will increase…
The new Dutch Embassy in Berlin has already been dubbed 'The Revenge of Koolhaas'. More than ten years ago, Koolhaas stormed out of the jury assembled to decide the future of Potsdamerplatz. In Welt am Sonntag he recently recalled that 'dramatic mome…
Content is an exhibition about Rem Koolhaas and, more precisely, by Rem Koolhaas, as is often the case with exhibitions devoted to living architects. The visitor is offered a glimpse inside the architect's office. How do OMA projects evolve? What fas…
Wired is a magazine that sounds out, studies and shapes the symbiosis between culture and new technology. A forward-looking, model magazine, it reaches out to a readership that effortlessly navigates between reviews of the latest 'Prefuse 73', the mi…