YAS NERD ALERT

REM is coming.

REM TEASER 2015 from tomas koolhaas on Vimeo.

Now three years in the making, Tomas Koolhaas' film will examine his father's incomparable ouvre of work through the eyes of the people that inhabit the designs, eschewing the high-brow and sometimes impenetrable discourse that usually surrounds the work of OMA for something more elemental. (via)

nErD aLeRt!

eh.

NeRd aLeRt!!

usually i am a big fan of any design that comes from the netherlands, but this redesign of the delegates lounge at the united nation seems like a wasted opportunity. there are two beautiful hand crafted window treatments by Hella Jongerius on either end, then they just piled in an array of dutch furniture in between. all this for 3.5 million dollars. not good enough.

more pictures and a description of the design process here

cctv shoe

rem koolhaas collaborated with galahad clark to designed a line of shoes for united nude. ceyute. [via]

koolhaas houselife

Rem Koolhaas examines the afterlife of starchitecture in this cheeky little film about his own creation, the widely praised home in Bordeaux, France that he designed for the wheelchair bound publisher Jean-Francois Lemoine.

Besides the celebrity of the architect and the house itself, the star of the film is the housekeeper who deals with the everyday life and eccentricities of the home. "There's nothing holding it up. I hope it doesn't fall down."

i want to see this.