Revised version is as per the requested edits from CLOG on remresearch. Editorial (Julia van den Hout) required to identify the formation of the style of research by Rem from works published. This created almost a thesis to the Work of Rem Koolhaas and due to constraints shelved. The updated piece in process of listing the requests, refreshed the work by establishing the act of research by Rem as an entity to have persistently looked at the production of architecture via its various cultural contexts. Delirious New York, S M L XL, Mutations, OMA/AMO, Project Japan and oma.eu have been the references in establishing this view submitted.

At the culmination of this process we have asked Rem Koolhaas to engage himself in an original research project … _ President of La Biennale Paolo Baratta expands after introduction of the guiding principles of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale

27 March 2014: OMA wins competition to design Axel Springer’s new media centre in Berlin

30 January 2014: OMA design team recommended to build Transbay Block 8 residential tower

30 January 2014: OMA updates the Kunsthal

23 January 2014: OMA Completes Maison Ullens’s Flagship Store in Paris

19 December 2013: OMA wins competition to design Pont Jean-Jacques Bosc in Bordeaux

18 December 2013: OMA announced as finalist in Axel Springer competition

26 November 2013 : Auguste Perret, Huit Chefs d’oeuvre !/? – Architectures du béton armé

21 November 2013: OMA completes De Rotterdam

14 November 2013 OMA’s Comprehensive Strategy for Hoboken Selected for HUD Rebuild by Design Task Force

12 November 2013: OMA’s CCTV Headquarters Wins Best Tall Building Worldwide Award

08 October 2013: OMA completes the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Headquarters in China

28 August 2013: OMA appointed to...

Assumed as an ongoing study on ways of display of information, a collaboration was proposed to be assembled with various visual creative professionals to meet together and work on a collective project on neighbourhoods in the city. This group was to imagine the identified centre on the basis of available content, data, information or any other material that would piece an image of what the place was or for that matter is. OMG BKC was zeroed in on as the theme of the project with the site of investigation being the special planning area of Bandra Kurla Complex which is in the approximate geographic centre of the city. Unfortunately the imagined collective wasn’t assembled but what remained was a series of links exchanged in generating ideas or get the discussion going on the possibilities of this spatial visualisation project. Listed is the archive of the exchange. Broadly the content is...

Between September 24th 2012 and August 8th 2013 UDRI moved its project conversation on the Mumbai City Development Plan 2014-‘34 onto a selected array of social networks. Starting first with facebook posts, with intermediate cross-posting of long reads on wordpress and finally news and interactions on twitter. The content period earmarks a significant time in the development planning process as it approximately lays out the Existing Land Use (ELU) deliverable stage with all its events involving the conversations between the citizen groups and state. Though institutionally centered exercise earmarks in sketch the apprehensions shown with the successive rebuttals or clarifications to the same. The objective of this exercise has been to observe the role of an agency that aspires to be a voice of the populous and how its managed to negotiate this position as a project mandate. To extrapolate...

Landscape of design inspiration in the country could be attributed to this selection of locally available popular magazines that monitors trends in architecture, construction and interior design industries. Content accessed from their respective social networks and websites - about - pages present an overview of formats available to those in the profession interested in domain updates. Beyond their intended mandates these publications end up being consumed by a varying demography ranging from banking executives to house wives towards references for discussions on projects or ideas on home accessorizing. Content quality in respect to designs reviewed and editorial themes shifts from what modal standpoint each issue is required for. Most of these are advertisement driven hence at times overbearingly morph with the burdens of meeting financial commitments of sponsors. Consumer centric...

“At the culmination of this process we have asked Rem Koolhaas to engage himself in an original research project …”

President of La Biennale Paolo Baratta expands after introduction of the guiding principles of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Research is a convoluted term. For that matter it’s an emphatic process. It has to have a method. Before one achieves method there has to be position where there is a location of the investigation within a broader identified body of knowledge. By trial or error the case towards an objective question is argued and thus a suggestion is made for the investigation of having contributed to a system a smidgen of material.

At its very onset, rem-research is problematic. It’s always very original and comes across as all can be staged under its framework. It’s measured by the production value or the bigness of its content. Most of it is always...

01] preface - titled Institutional Buildings, Planning of Cultural Precincts the research tries to understand the role of institutions in formation and governance of areas/ regions of cultural significance in the city. The research locates itself in the need to re-imagine heritage and redevelopment of areas in the city alongside the larger aspirations of a city plan.

02] acknowledgements - institutions, agencies, guides, colleagues, family and friends

03] methodology - Formatted as introduction, projects review, research plan, data analysis, conclusions and design the structure is a course prescribed condition. Review of nine area studies performed in various city neighborhoods and presenting solutions to research objectives are the two main components of the task. These facilitates into the suggestion of a list of areas of significance, a possible vision and spatial guidelines for...

The Rubell Family Collection (RFC) was established in 1964 in New York City, shortly after its founders Donald and Mera Rubell were married. It is now one of the world’s largest, privately owned contemporary art collections.

In Miami, Florida, since 1993, the RFC is exhibited within a 45,000-square-foot repurposed Drug Enforcement Agency confiscated goods facility and is publicly accessible. The Contemporary Arts Foundation (CAF) was created in 1994 to expand the RFC’s public mission inside the paradigm of a contemporary art museum.

The collection is constantly expanding and features such well-known artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker and Andy Warhol. In addition to displaying internationally established artists, the RFC actively acquires, exhibits and champions emerging artists working at the forefront of contemporary art.

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Aspinwall House is a large sea-facing heritage property in Fort Kochi on the way to Mattancherry.

The property was originally the business premises of Aspinwall & Company Ltd. established in 1867 by English trader John H Aspinwall. Under the guidance of Aspinwall the Company traded in coconut oil, pepper, timber, lemon grass oil, ginger, turmeric, spices, hides and later in coir, coffee, tea and rubber.

The large compound contains office buildings, a residential bungalow and a number of warehouses and smaller outer-lying structures. Aspinwall House will be a primary venue of the Biennale, hosting numerous artist led projects and events spaces.

The Durbar Hall and its grounds are in the heart of the city, near Kochi’s main railway station Ernakulam South.

Built in the 1850s by the Maharaja of Cochin to host his Royal court, the Durbar Hall has had many incarnations over its 150 year...

Look at Life was a regular British series of short documentary films of which over 500 were produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation for screening in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. The films always preceded the main feature film that was being shown in the cinema that week. It replaced the circuit’s newsreel, Universal News, which had become increasingly irrelevant in the face of more immediate news media, particularly on television with the launch of ITN on the Independent Television service, which began broadcasting in parts of the United Kingdom in 1955.

Over 500 episodes were produced altogether. Digitally restored from the original film, the Look at Life series is now licensed by ITV Studios Global Entertainment, previously known on screen as Granada Ventures and distributed by Network DVD. Many of the films have not been seen in...