Rem Koolhaas

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#careful #educate #educational #establishment #kind

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#bubbles #certainty #consensus #constantly #exploding

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#architect #build #concert #concert hall #great

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#almost #any #assemble #issue #luxury

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#bankrupt #effort #much #office #our

We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#entity #felt #generate #important #like

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#best #cities #context #create #desired

When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#articulation #become #connected #contained #controlled

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#excessive #offset #our #return #simplicity