Onoffice magazine

“We have known each other for a very long time and worked on many projects together,” says Joost Ector, partner at Ector Hoogstad, about his latest client, Rotterdam engineering firm IMd. So it must have felt a little like business as usual when IMd asked the practice to design its new office. In a way it was almost the repaying a favour – the engineers had acted as consultants for Ector Hoogstad’s own office revamp, and, impressed with the results,…

Everyone, it seems, wants to meet Rem Koolhaas. In London, tourists flock to Buck House with faint hopes of catching a glimpse of HRH. But in Rotterdam, architects trump monarchy, and the winning ticket is a visit to the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and a glimpse of Rem Koolhaas. Think that I’m exaggerating? Well, name one member of the Dutch royal family. Founded in 1975 by Koolhaas, his wife Madelon Vriesendorp and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis, OMA – with…