Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but also a test case. It's unbelievably unique, but also it's now considered with a number of really generic opinions, generic solution, generic expectations.
Rem KoolhaasA building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.
Rem KoolhaasOne cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.
Rem KoolhaasIt was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which sounds quite cowardly, perhaps, but it was the first manifestation of what is currently a really big issue: how political correctness defines the limits of what you can do. In that sense, it was super-exciting and maybe the most magical project we did, but at the same time fraught with mixed feelings.
Rem Koolhaas