Apr 24

Written by: host
4/24/2009 4:51 PM 

April 24, Rotterdam Rem Koolhaas's massive, doughnut-shaped CCTV building in Beijing survived unscathed in February 2009 when a fire engulfed a nearby tower belonging to the same complex. But the event signaled the ending of an architectural era. "I don't even know about the word 'downturn,' " said Mr. Koolhaas in his office in Rotterdam in April2009, reflecting on the global economic slowdown that has stopped the architecture world dead in its tracks. "It's seems simply the end to a period."...more

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