Photo Gallery Rem's World

In a SPIEGEL interview, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas talks about new trends in architecture and urban development, the end of the European city and the difference between architects and "star architects."
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Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas: "I have a very hard time with the expression 'star architect'."

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A Koolhaas design: An external view of the Koolhaas-designed Dutch Embassy in Berlin's Mitte district.

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An overhanging form: An exposed conference room stetches out of the facade of the Dutch Embassy in Berlin.

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Koolhaas has helped to further innovate downtown Seattle with his design for the main library.

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"Our attention shifts to the interior": Koolhaas's "Educatorium" building in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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"Bigness is getting more important": The Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal

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Architect Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu, one of six partners at his Office for Metropolitan Architecture, display a model of a planned Jersey City residential tower.

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The original Koolhaas design for a planned Science Center in Hamburg, Germany's Hafencity, the site of massive urban redevelopment in parts of the old port that are no longer being used.

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The current Koolhaas design for the Science Center.

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A prestigious building that has already become an icon: The CCTV tower in Beijing being erected now was designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, a partner at Koolhaas-led Office for Metropolitan Architecture.

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The CCTV tower has already changed Beijing's skyline.

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