Along with Rem Koolhaas, founder of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), Ole Scheeren is the architect of Asia’s most ambitious and scariest skyscraper, Beijing’s enormous CCTV (China Central Television) Building. That avant-garde monumental arch loomed over the Olympics and dominates the city’s increasingly prickly skyline. This building is the perfect expression of a sensibility that powerfully combines western questioning and eastern bravado...more.