A 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 KoolhaasLagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.
Rem KoolhaasWe discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way to Harvard. She supported an unbelievable escape of her children into education. In that sense it was a city completed pixillated, and every pixel contained amazing stories.
Rem Koolhaas