Architect Rem Koolhaas 06:30. ... But for all the dazzle of his work, Koolhaas is content in his humble hometown of Rotterdam, which was destroyed in World War II and colorfully rebuilt.

Rem Koolhaas and his firm OMA rarely create a building without effect; and that is true of his latest, de Rotterdam, their “vertical city” of offices, apartments, hotel, restaurants and shops just ...

It helps that one of this earth's reigning deities of urban architecture, Rem Koolhaas, is a Rotterdam boy and has his European practice headquartered here. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

Rem Koolhaas on OMA’s Rotterdam beginnings, Boompjes and Amex. We caught up with Rem Koolhaas to discuss OMA's beginnings, setting up shop in Rotterdam, and his new design for the Amex Centurion ‘Art ...

When Rem Koolhaas was born in the Dutch port of Rotterdam in November 1944, very little of the city center was still standing. The Second World War was ending but it wasn't over, and the Nazis had ...

Koolhaas buildings were a long time in coming, a few signal structures in Europe that swayed the Seattle Public Library's board of trustees, including the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, the ...

The Dutch architect has mentored dozens of talented designers at his Rotterdam studio, OMA. Here, a portfolio of seven of his protégés—who have grown to become his top competitors.

Rem Koolhaas, the Pritzker prize–winning Dutch architect, author and academic, has long had a beef with airports. It’s not the same beef that everyone else has with airports–the Cinnabon ...

But what Rotterdam, the Netherlands’ second-largest city, lacks in historical edifices — much of it was bombed in World War II — it makes up for with contemporary urban cool.