Floris Alkemade & Alex de Jong / OMA

What effect would dispensing with DIN- standards have on how we perceive architecture? 
What scope for development has been won by the structural change in the Ruhr district and how can this be utilised and transformed in architectural utopias?

Taking Zeche Zollverein as an example, architect Floris Alkemade illustrates how the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) approached the region.

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