Rem Koolhaas

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An art show for toilets and ductwork

Rem Koolhaas’s vision for architecture’s biggest fair is oddly glum, and often wrong

The Hepworth Wakefield, 1 Wentworth Terrace, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Architect: David Chipperfield Architects 2010 The Hepworth Wakefield, David Chipperfield Architects, Wakefield, 2011, View Across Calder River

Architecture for the other 99 per cent

So long, Frank Gehry. The design world turns on ‘starchitecture’ and its excesses

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Architecture: Buildings that will be and might have been

Paul Wells on Rem Koolhaas’ winning design and which buildings got the shaft