A year ago, in the OMA-designed Maggie's Centre at Gartnavel Hospital, I pressed Rem Koolhaas to discuss the wider townscape around us: Glasgow. What were his thoughts on this strange northern city? Did he like the grid? The proto-skyscrapers? The tenement housing? But he wasn't interested in talking about Glasgow. Or any other city. T am now writing about the countryside,' he said. 'The countryside is changing more radically than our cities,' he added.
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