Koolhaas gets first big NYC commission
February 29, 2008 05:38PM
By Alec Appelbaum
Rem Koolhaas
From the February issue: In December, the celebrated Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his Rotterdam-based firm, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), finally won their first significant commission in New York City. OMA will design a luxury 22-story mid-rise building with a ground-level screening room on East 22nd Street, to be developed by Ira Shapiro and Marc Jacobs, the same team behind the adjacent, 60-story One Madison Park. The building is scheduled to be completed in 2010. The project has been a long time coming. As the only "starchitect" to write a bestselling book about New York City (1995's "Delirious New York"), it may seem surprising that it took Koolhaas so long to earn a local commission. more
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Anonymous
Very cool. I have never seen a photo of him before.
Comment #1 Posted By: Anonymous 03/01/08