Ole Scheeren Editorial

Ole Scheeren is a German architect and business partner of Rem Koolhaas.

Ole Scheeren is Partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Director of the Beijing and Rotterdam offices.

As partner-in-charge of OMA’s most ambitious project to date, he is leading the design and construction of the China Central Television Station CCTV and the Television Cultural Center TVCC in Beijing. Ole

Scheeren is responsible for OMA’s work throughout Asia, including the Beijing Books Building, a residential tower in Singapore, and offices for a media company in Shanghai. S

ince 1999 he has directed OMA’s work for Prada and completed the Prada Epicenters in New York and Los Angeles.

He has lead numerous other projects, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA, the Leeum Cultural Center in Seoul, and a competition for the masterplan of Penang Island.

In 2006, he designed 2 exhibitions for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Beijing featuring the CCTV project.

Ole Scheeren joined Rem Koolhaas and OMA in 1995 and became Partner in 2002. Previously he worked for architecture firms in Germany; collaborated with 2x4, a graphic design firm in New York; and was engaged in a range of projects through his own studio in the United Kingdom.

He has been involved in various art projects and exhibitions, such as Cities on the Move in London and Bangkok, Media City Seoul and the Rotterdam Film Festival. He writes and lectures on a regular basis.

Educated at the universities of Lausanne and Karlsruhe, Ole Scheeren graduated from the Architectural Association in London and received the RIBA Silver Medal.