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18 – Junkspace – Rem Koolhaas & the End of Architecture

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Junk Space as an Essay - Yeah, Yeah Yeah Yeah.

One of the things which we talked about a little bit in the planning of this is that junk space as an essay can seem a little bit of its time. So yeah you've got the sort of point of tourist landing being full of fake markets or sort of you know concession cubical zones within private streets, watched over and cared for by loving an underpaid security guard. I had a street re-we did a project with Henrietta. We did a thing and then it got in the evening standard and then they re-landscaped a little tiny street because we'd said it was like the apotheosis of contemporary grimness. That's a move agency. They used to do

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