ART & DESIGN

Photos: Rem Koolhaas Is Not a Starchitect


Rem Koolhaas
Photographer: Jamie Hawkesworth

(Just don’t tell his clients that.) Meet the mastermind behind this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale—and the most daring architecture firm on the planet.

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Photographer: Jamie Hawkesworth

The architect Rem Koolhaas in the Ambassade Hotel in Amsterdam. When he is in town, the hotel serves as a makeshift office.

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Photographer: Jamie Hawkesworth

Phase-one model of a project in Nanterre, France.

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Photographer: Jamie Hawkesworth

The dome of the model for the Central Pavilion of the Venice Biennale.

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Rendering for the Fondazione Prada in Milan, which is due to open next year. Image courtesy of OMA.

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A model for the Fondazione Prada in Milan, which is due to open next year. Image courtesy of OMA.

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Photographer: Jamie Hawkesworth

A model of the Fondazione Prada in Milan, which is due to open next year.

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De Rotterdam completed. Image courtesy of OMA; photography by Ossip van Duivenbode.

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Models for Der Rotterdam, the largest building in the Netherlands. Image courtesy of OMA.

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Rendering for Pont Jean-Jacques Bosc in Bordeaux, France. Image courtesy of OMA.