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`An Obsessive Compulsion towards the Spectacular`

Netherlands Architecture News - Jul 21, 2008 - 14:20 5780 views

Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas talks about new trends inarchitecture and urban development, the end of the European city, therise of Dubai, Russia and China, the obsession with XXXL and thedifference between the people who design buildings for a living and"star architects."

www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,566655,00.html

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