House of the Day: Maison Bordeaux by OMA
November 4th, 2016
November 4th, 2016
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Sitting on a hillside overlooking Bordeaux, this unique house was completed in 1998 by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his firm, OMA.
Shortly before commissioning the project the client was involved in a life threatening car accident, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. As such, he requested a complex space, ‘because the house will define my world’.
Photography: Hans Werlemann, OMA
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