Special exhibits are housed in Rem Koolhaas' high-tech "black box" structure, which allows no outside light to penetrate.

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Nearby, the Seattle Central Library (1000 Fourth Avenue) is an astonishing glass and steel construction by Rem Koolhaas.

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From New York he moved to the Netherlands to work for OMA, an architecture firm led by Rem Koolhaas.

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The image graced the cover of "Delirious New York, " a well-known 1978 manifesto written by her husband, the architect Rem Koolhaas.

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Foster is again designing residential condominiums, while Rem Koolhaas's firm, OMA, will create an arts center, retail spaces and a high-tech parking garage.

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Contemporary Dutch architecture became internationally famous in the 1990s with a number of distinctive and ambitious projects by pioneering figures like Rotterdam's Rem Koolhaas.

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Relative newcomer Prada, on the other hand, is going public: The company's art arm, the Fondazione Prada, has enlisted architect Rem Koolhaas to design a new contemporary art museum on an industrial site south of Milan.

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The set, by the team of the front-row guest Rem Koolhaas, gave the first clue: a space like an industrial street, with the effect of oil spills, heavy metal pillars and abstract cars in pastel pink colors.

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