origami
- n the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)
- From the moment the first model stepped gingerly under a bow of blossoms in a fuchsia kimono jacket to the last sigh of a corseted bride swathed in a tulle origami cloud, the .
- The conversation segued from origami to car-racing to striptease and ultimately to the building.
- Folded like origami and covered with a diamond-shape latticework of structural steel, the new library is an exercise in dynamic thinking by the oracular Dutch architect Rem .