Rem Koolhaas

Pritzker Prize jury won't retroactively honor Denise Scott Brown

2013-06-17 07:00:00

Organizers of the Pritzker Architecture Prize — the highest award in the field of architecture — have turned down a request to retroactively honor Denise Scott Brown, whose design partner and husband Robert Venturi received the award in 1991....

LACMA draws up ambitious plans for a $650-million new look

2013-05-01 05:00:00

At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an acclaimed Swiss architect is hoping to pull off what an acclaimed Dutch one could not. Next month LACMA will publicly unveil a $650-million plan by Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor for a dramatic new museum...

Motion Picture Academy unveils ambitious plans for film museum

2013-04-12 05:00:00

Will the Academy's big bubble pop before it has a chance to be built? Italian architect Renzo Piano, Los Angeles architect Zoltan Pali and officials from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled preliminary designs Thursday for a $300-...

Architect Lebbeus Woods' turbulent brilliance still resonates

2013-03-17 05:00:00

SAN FRANCISCO — On the morning of Oct. 30, as New York surveyed the damage left by Hurricane Sandy, word began to spread that Lebbeus Woods, the experimental architect known for his dystopian and densely layered drawings, had died in Lower Manhattan...

Rem Koolhaas to curate 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale

2013-01-09 07:12:00

Dutch starchitect Rem Koolhaas has been tapped to curate one of architecture's most high-profile events -- the Venice Architecture Biennale. Koolhaas will curate the 2014 edition of the Biennale, taking over from British architect David Chipperfield,...

London Olympic Stadium shortlisted for top architecture prize

2012-07-25 07:29:00

The new stadium built for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London has made the shortlist for Britain's top architecture honor -- the Stirling Prize, from the�Royal Institute of British Architects. The institute said on its website that the stadium...

China: A domestic wine industry starts to take root

2012-01-15 00:00:00

A few months before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, I read a blog post by an Atlantic Monthly correspondent about Chinese wine. Chinese what? I grew up outside New York City, where I ate hundreds of pounds of lo mein and pork-fried rice but didn't see, taste...

Southern California Close-up: Westside of Los Angeles

2012-06-05 10:03:00

First published on Sept. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. You're an outsider heading to the Westside of Los Angeles -- not the beach cities, but Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood and the nearby well-heeled neighborhoods south of the Santa...

2011 year in review: Best in architecture

2011-12-16 16:32:59

Reading L.A.: Growth, mega-projects and Freud

2011-12-29 21:33:12

Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron to build Serpentine pavilion

2012-02-10 10:54:37

Critic's notebook: Skyscrapers remain powerful symbols, post 9/11

2011-09-04 00:00:00

Any skyscraper is a contradiction. The tall tower is architecture's most famous building type and also the one most clearly at odds with the profession's roots. Fundamentally, architecture is shelter, a concession that we're afraid to face the elements...

Rem Koolhaas, left, and Joshua Ramus of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture at the Central Library in Seattle in 2004.

2013-01-08 22:02:06

This exhibition at London's Barbican Centre on Rem Koolhaas' firm -- curated by Rotor, a young and talented design collective from Brussels -- is big, sprawling and messy.

2011-12-14 18:07:21

Bystanders watch as the unfinished Mandarin Oriental hotel tower is engulfed in flames in Beijing. Witnesses said the fire started before 9 p.m. amid a fireworks celebration for the Lunar New Year. The hotel tower was part of a complex designed by architect Rem Koolhaas.

2009-02-09 00:00:00