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Ole Scheeren is a German architect and business partner of Rem Koolhaas company "Office for Metropolitan Architecture" (OMA)..Scheeren is partner of the OMA and director of its Rotterdam and Beijing offices. As partner-in-charge of OMAÍs largest 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. He is responsible for OMAÍs work throughout Asia. Ole Scheeren joined Rem Koolhaas and OMA in 1995 and became partner in 2002. Previously he worked for architecture firms in Germany, in New York, and his own studio in the United Kingdom..The new CCTV headquarters, at a height of 230m and a floor area of 405,000m2, combines administration with news, broadcasting, studios and program production - the entire process of TV making - in a sequence of interconnected activities. Although the building is 230 meter tall it is not a traditional tower, but a continuous loop of horizontal and vertical sections that establish an urban site rather than point to the sky. The irregular grid on the buildingÍs facades is an expression of the forces traveling throughout its structure. *** Local Caption *** Ole Scheeren inside the building