Photo Gallery Rem's World
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas: "I have a very hard time with the expression 'star architect'."
A Koolhaas design: An external view of the Koolhaas-designed Dutch Embassy in Berlin's Mitte district.
An overhanging form: An exposed conference room stetches out of the facade of the Dutch Embassy in Berlin.
Koolhaas has helped to further innovate downtown Seattle with his design for the main library.
"Our attention shifts to the interior": Koolhaas's "Educatorium" building in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
"Bigness is getting more important": The Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal
Architect Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu, one of six partners at his Office for Metropolitan Architecture, display a model of a planned Jersey City residential tower.
The original Koolhaas design for a planned Science Center in Hamburg, Germany's Hafencity, the site of massive urban redevelopment in parts of the old port that are no longer being used.
The current Koolhaas design for the Science Center.
A prestigious building that has already become an icon: The CCTV tower in Beijing being erected now was designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, a partner at Koolhaas-led Office for Metropolitan Architecture.
The CCTV tower has already changed Beijing's skyline.
