Rem Koolhaas' Iconic Buildings
Building↕ | Type↕ | City↕ | Country↕ | Completed↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCTV Headquarters | TV broadcast HQ | Beijing | China | 2,012 | Looped trapezoidal skyscraper, nicknamed Big Pants, cantilever of 75 m |
| Casa da Musica | Concert hall | Porto | Portugal | 2,005 | Crystalline white shoebox set on a plinth, asymmetric concert hall with glass end walls |
| Seattle Central Library | Public library | Seattle | United States | 2,004 | Diamond-patterned glass skin, Book Spiral with continuous Dewey ramp |
| Fondazione Prada | Art foundation | Milan | Italy | 2,015 | Old distillery plus gold-leafed Haunted House and cantilevered cinema |
| De Rotterdam | Mixed-use tower | Rotterdam | Netherlands | 2,013 | Vertical city of three shifted towers, largest building in Netherlands |
| Kunsthal | Art gallery | Rotterdam | Netherlands | 1,992 | Early OMA breakthrough, raw materials, ramped route through galleries |
| Embassy of the Netherlands | Embassy | Berlin | Germany | 2,003 | Mies van der Rohe Award 2005, cube with diagonal promenade through the building |
| Villa dall'Ava | Private house | Saint-Cloud | France | 1,991 | Steel-and-glass house with rooftop swimming pool aligned to Eiffel Tower view |
| McCormick Tribune Campus Center | Student center | Chicago | United States | 2,003 | Stainless steel tube around elevated L train over the building, IIT campus |
| Taipei Performing Arts Center | Theater complex | Taipei | Taiwan | 2,022 | Spherical Globe Playhouse plugged into a cube, three theaters combinable |
| Garage Museum of Contemporary Art | Museum | Moscow | Russia | 2,015 | Renovation of 1960s Vremena Goda restaurant, polycarbonate facade, Gorky Park |
| Serpentine Pavilion 2006 | Pavilion | London | United Kingdom | 2,006 | Cecil Balmond collaboration, inflatable egg-shaped canopy, temporary summer pavilion |
| Educatorium | University hall | Utrecht | Netherlands | 1,997 | Continuous folded-surface building for Utrecht University Uithof campus |
| Qatar National Library | Library | Doha | Qatar | 2,017 | Single room with stepped marble valleys, rare book collection sunken at center |
| Axel Springer Campus | Office HQ | Berlin | Germany | 2,020 | Diagonal glass valley slicing through publishing HQ, bridges and terraces |
| Maggie's Centre Gartnavel | Cancer care center | Glasgow | United Kingdom | 2,011 | Single-storey ring of rooms around a courtyard garden, domestic scale |
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