Public Works - Public Space

Nicola Macarthur- Stage one architecture

#9 Bigness OMA

The term ‘Bigness’ is defined by Rem Koolhaas, as it’s relation to architectural scale and the impact it has on cities. In his book S,M,L,XL there are presentations of his projects of ‘extra-large’ features at urban scale.The concept of the term ‘bigness’ is used to tell us that the building of our day seem to become taller and begins to forget about the of practical space, which then interlinks with the idea of ‘what ever happened to urbanisation.