Ole Scheeren

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Ole Scheeren (2016)

Ole Scheeren (* 1971 in Karlsruhe ) is a German architect . He teaches as a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong and was a partner of Rem Koolhaas in the Dutch office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam . Ole Scheeren's most famous building is the China Central Television Headquarters , the new headquarters of the Chinese state television broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing . Since March 2010 he has been running his own architectural office Ole Scheeren with branches in Beijing and Hong Kong and since the end of 2015 in Berlin- Moabit and Bangkok.

life and work

Ole Scheeren is the son of the architect Dieter Scheeren, who was professor of architecture and civil engineering at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences . At the age of 14 he was already working in his father's office. He designed furniture and completed his first architectural project at the age of 21. As a twenty-year-old he traveled through rural China with a backpack. He lived there in poor, simple circumstances with the locals and spent three months there before starting his studies. Scheeren studied in Karlsruhe, Lausanne and London . Here he was awarded the RIBA Silver Medal at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) for his thesis .

After project experience in Germany , New York and London, Ole Scheeren started his work in 1995 in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture OMA in Rotterdam. In 2002 he became a partner and, as director of the office, was responsible for the entire Asian business. Scheeren left OMA in March 2010 and started his own business .

As head of OMA Bejing, he was in charge of the design and implementation of several new buildings for the Chinese state television CCTV (China Central Television) and TVCC (Television Cultural Center) in Beijing, as well as the Maha Nakhon , a 310 m high tower in Bangkok , which towers over the city and was completed in 2016 , and at The Interlace , a large residential complex in Singapore with 1,040 apartments in 31 building blocks (in a hexagonal arrangement and stacked on top of each other).

Other projects included winning competitions for the Taipei Performing Arts Center in Taiwan and the new city center of Shenzhen in China. Previously, Ole Scheeren was responsible for the implementation of the Prada Epicenter flagship stores in New York (2001) and Los Angeles (2004). Because of its high-rise buildings, it is also jokingly called "Lord of the Towers", a term which, like all other names, it rejects as "labels".

In 2011, his office won the tender for an auction house ( Guardian Art Center ) near the Forbidden City in Beijing. Behind an emphatically restrained outer facade, which takes up the brick structure of the adjoining hutong houses, there are underground, wood-paneled auction rooms, an inner courtyard with a Chinese garden landscape , a hall that can be divided as required for exhibitions, and a hotel on the upper floors.

In addition to his work as an architect, Scheeren has designed exhibitions such as Cities on the Move in London's Hayward Gallery and is represented in collections such as that of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Scheeren has lived in Beijing since 2004 and was in a relationship with actress Maggie Cheung from 2007 to 2012 .

Awards

  • 2015: World Building of the Year for The Interlace 
  • 2014: Urban Habitat Award for its The Interlace residential complex in Singapore (first presented in 2014)
  • 2010: Best Architecture - Asia Pacific Property Awards ( The Interlace )
  • 2008: Best Building Site - Wallpaper (CCTV)
  • 2008: Best New Global Design - International Architecture Awards (CCTV)
  • 2000: RIBA Silver Medal ( Royal Institute of British Architects )

Movie

  • Megacities - building for millions. From the WDR series: quarks and co . Conversation with video recordings, Germany, 2013, 44 min. ( Table of contents ).

Web links

Commons : Buro Ole Scheeren  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Braun: Skyscraper of the future . In: Stern , No. 18, May 5, 2008.
  2. ^ Anna Winston: OMA partner quits to set up new practice. In: archinect.com , March 3, 2010.
  3. ↑ Büro Ole Scheeren expands with new offices in Berlin and Bangkok. In: Büro Ole Scheeren , November 2, 2015, accessed December 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dieter Scheeren. ( Memento from January 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hochschule RheinMain , Wiesbaden , status: January 23, 2015.
  5. ↑ Oliver Sefrin: Ole Scheeren is building a landmark for Beijing. ( Memento from June 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: magazine-deutschland.de , September 17, 2007.
  6. ↑ a b Sebastian Moll: Lord of the Towers. In: Spiegel Online , November 15, 2009, interview, with video, 1:29 min.
  7. ↑ Ruth Fend: The Beau vom Bau . In: Business Punk . G + J Wirtschaftsmedien, Hamburg January 2013, p. 62-67 . Start of article. ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Amy Frearson: The Interlace by OMA and Ole Scheeren nears completion. In: Dezeen. October 14, 2013, accessed February 15, 2014 .
  9. ↑ dieter bartetzko : The tower gentleman from Karlsruhe. In: FAZ , December 8, 2014, p. 11.
  10. ↑ Dieter Bartetzko: The sorcerer's apprentice is now the master. In: FAZ , July 19, 2011 and as a PDF file .
  11. ↑ Lothar Gorris and Ulrike Knöfel: “I knock down towers.” In: Der Spiegel , No. 11, March 7, 2015, interview.
  12. ^ Guardian Art Center. In: Büro Ole Scheeren , accessed on December 5, 2015.
  13. ↑ Tobias Timm : Ole Scheeren: The Great Hall of Art. In: Die Zeit , No. 46, November 26, 2015.
  14. ^ Rowan Moore: The Sky's the Limit. In: American Vogue , September 2013.
  15. ↑ Louis Lewitan: Architect Ole Scheeren: “China has fundamentally changed me.” In: ZEITmagazin , No. 47, November 23, 2011, interview.
    Sandra Leong: East-West attraction. ( Memento of December 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Star (Malaysia) , October 30, 2007.
  16. ↑ World Building of the Year winner: The Interlace / Singapore / OMA / Ole Scheeren. ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.worldarchitecturefestival.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: World Architecture Festival , November 4, 2015, accessed on December 5, 2015.
    Ole Scheeren's "vertical village" named World Building of the Year 2015. In: Dezeen , November 6, 2015.
  17. ^ Andreas Landwehr ( dpa ): German architect honored: The world's best high-rise project. In: manager magazin , June 29, 2014.
  18. ↑ MEXT project. In: Royal Institute of British Architects , accessed March 3, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Scheeren, Ole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe