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Educatorium - Wood meets Concrete You have seen the concrete roof covered with sedum, and when exposed during construction, and afterwards in the ceiling of the cafeteria. Now we look at concrete that is covered in laminated and shaped wood. This has a triple purpose - aesthetics (a word...

Educatorium - Interior 2 The Educatorium toilets not only used partially recycled water (from elsewhere) to remove waste - resulting in a lower use of fresh water - they also were part of a design to use less energy in processing that waste. Continuing ... not only are these toilets...

They really do have it all figured out: :p FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Answers to most other tiny house related questions can be found in The Small House Book. General Information Where can I see a Tumbleweed house? Is there one in my area? I love your ideas. Is there any way I...

Educatorium - Interior 1 The Model used for the interior of the Educatorium is displayed in a specific sequence below. After the base is displayed, floors are added in each photograph (most in the rear. You will note that some areas stay the same due to the fact that they span that floor as...

Educatorium - Selective use of Concrete The Educatorium roof was planned as a veritable garden of sedum; water was to be partially recycled (from elsewhere) in toilets to remove waste; and materials were carefully chosen and reworked to achieve an environmentally friendly structure. Rem...

A few quibbles: theman23 - Admiral Beez never mentioned South Africa - he mentioned South America and Africa. Admiral Beez - "WASP countries" does not seem to fit your list, and is generally unclear as to what you mean.

Educatorium - Exterior 2 The following photographs are not so photogenic as the first for the Educatorium, but they do reveal how certain matters are handled. The building position, as it were, is due to lot restrictions on the campus. Sun streams into the backside, or the side opposite the...

Educatorium - Exterior 1 "Educatorium," has a confusing backstory not worth exploring here. What we have in terms of a building, is a type of Lecture Hall at University, that deliberately is designed to be multifunctional and inviting to students and teachers alike. As one Japanese...

Benazir Bhutto had fascinated me over the years. Not only was she the first female Prime Minister in that fairly young, politically and religiously troubled country, she was also the youngest elected to that position - and she was elected once again. She was flat-out brilliant in an academic...

Dutch House - Interior Detail Dutch House is more innovative on the inside than out. This page visually demonstrates the following: how the exterior, raised landscape element, is translated to the interior; the opening and closing of both the exterior and interior curtains; and finally, a...

Hmmmm ... Oh well, I guess this is less mystery to me, and more of the standard depression that comes from viewing this type of 'decay'. The saving grace is both the interesting perspective brought by photography, and that kind of de facto musing that happens under associative imagery. If I...

My, my - perhaps a dog would find this a cramped shelter as well. :)

Dutch House - Exterior Only Some say Dutch House is Rem’s equivalent to Mies’ Farnsworth House or Johnson’s Glass House – not Patio Villa which was never a house in the first place. But if this is true the exterior is a disappointment indeed. The timing of the idea was somewhere between 1992...

First of all, a hearty welcome to Urban Toronto! I am honoured to have received your very first post, and thank you for your kind words. I am determined to cover Rem Koolhaas through this thread and using the Internet to visually document his work. I hope to give a glimpse of the complex person...

That ring of steel you have seen in SolarWind's last pictures, corresponds to the following Architectural Drawing, with the ring area highlighted in solid pink: SSP - Chicago Spire / UberAlles

Strange Things Uncovered While Researching Rem - #10 Rem’s fascination with Africa’s largest city … the Documentary Koolhaas's fascination with Lagos stems from the apparently unplanned nature of this growth, and the ability of the city to cope with the influx of people without visible...

NEVER BUILT - Two Jussieu Libraries in Paris The first image in this post is of a sheet of folded paper used to create a continuous ramp across several levels of one of two proposed buildings. Seems like fun-and-games? Not really. The same idea was used later in the Royal Dutch Embassy [Berlin...

Thanks 299. Hate to be blasé about this type of thing - and it is deplorable - but from what we have seen from the past two terms, this is not entirely surprising for Mr. Bush, his humourless Vice President, and their legion of enablers. I would think even if you are conservative, you...

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EuraLille aka Euralille and Lille Grand Palais - Grand Palais Detail 3 Rem Koolhaas / OMA Lille Grand Palais 1990 - 1994 Lille, France Lille Grand Palais' Exhibition Hall © flickr / dalbera © flickr / dalbera Lille Grand Palais transitional areas © flickr / dalbera