Koolhaas said something cool

I never thought the architect Rem Koolhaas was so good at writing. I feel the following words are very powerful and expressive:



in early 2002, my office received two invitations: one to propose a design for Ground Zero, the other to propose a design for the headquarters of China Central Television in Beijing. We discussed the choice over Chinese food. The life of the architect is so fraugth with uncertainty and dilemmas that any clarification of the future, including astrology, is disproportioantely welcome. My fortune cookie that night read: Stunningly Omnipresent Masters Make Minced Meat of Memory.

We chose China.