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Casa da Musica

Casa da Musica is Porto’s major contemporary concert hall, designed by Rem Koolhaas and opened in 2005 as one of the defining cultural buildings of the city.

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Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Rem Koolhaas

Born 1944 · Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

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Remment Lucas Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is often cited as a representative of deconstructivism and is the author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for…

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