Friday, December 20, 2002

Rem is online - OMA/AMO has a new web presence that is. It's a really strange site, that it is. First the web browser expands to full screen [I hate that] then you get a pop-up window [I hate that too], then on the Mac here a Flash file downloads to the desktop which then has to be dragged and dropped onto Explorer. The super-tiny text is vector, so you can increase the size of the browser window and the text will enlarge in proportion. [That's kind of neat.] There is a ton of information, but something is missing... no images! It's an architecture site, isn't it? Maybe they're still working on it.
Hmm. I like their buildings.

Where's that Prada site by the way?

In other Koolhaas news, OMA was awarded the contract for the CCTV headquarters in China a few weeks ago. [CCTV is the state-run television network.] Images can be found here and here. Apparently the irregular grid represents stress points on the structure. The engineering studies thus provided an equally functional and graphic theme for the building fa�ade. Nice.

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