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Googling It
Google Streetview of Antarctica (this is not a joke, there are people on those streets) got us thinking about Google Earth and design. You’ve seen Google Earth memes floating around the ‘nets, but what...
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Rem Koolhaas’‘Simpsons’ Cameo
A recent episode of the “Simpsons” featured starchitect Rem Koolhaas building a Lego scale-model of OMA’s CCTV tower before an audience of “elite-educated” tykes, those bright, young, and coddled...
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Construction on OMA’s CCTV Tower Completed!
Photo: Iwan Baan OMA announced today that construction has been completed on the Central China Television (CCTV) headquarters in Beijing, concluding an eight-year building period that saw numerous...
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Watch The Latest Clip From Tomas Koolhaas’“Rem” Biopic, And Read Our Q&A With...
De Rotterdam Complex, NL: Workers from tomas koolhaas on Vimeo. The first thing one notices of Tomas Koolhaas’s newest short film—really a clip, taken from Rem, his full length feature about his...
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Is OMA’s CCTV Headquarters One Of The World’s Ugliest Skyscrapers?
CCTV Headquarters. Photo © Iwan Baan via Artsation Are you a fan of OMA’s CCTV Headquarters in Beijing? What about Renzo Piano’s The Shard in London? Both buildings have made Huffington Post‘s list of...
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Making Spectacular Architecture A Reality: Arup’s Rory McGowan
CCTV Headquarters. Photo © Iwan Baan By Karen Wong Karen Wong is the Deputy Director at the New Museum and an Architizer A+ Awards juror. In an on-going series, she profiles the latest and most...
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The Year In Architecture: Best Buildings Of 2012
CCTV Tower by OMA, completed in May; Photo: Iwan Baan It would be strange to say that architecture had a good year in 2012. Architects, as a professional workforce, couldn’t have started the year off...
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A Roundup Of Architizer A+ Relevance Award Winner Iwan Baan’s Amazing...
The Herzog & de Meuron-designed Olympic Stadium in Beijing. Photo: Iwan Baan Dutch photographer Iwan Baan has been at the forefront of architectural photography since 2005, when he documented both...
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