| draw down, we read type of writing
| in obituaries, normally. it seems this
| press-bite is about a 35 year old who
| apparently did the impossible: worked for
| OMA and got his name in press!
Ole Sheeren: The man with the impossible plan
Aged 35, Ole Sheeren is the brains behind the most complex building ever
made. Luke Crissell meets architecture's new star
Even at eight in the morning, Ole Scheeren is perfectly groomed. He's
the kind of man who can, and does on the occasion of our first meeting,
wear a tailored, calf-length Ann Demeulemeester wool coat of such
iridescent, confident whiteness that it causes almost everyone he passes
to turn and stare. But that is not the most extraordinary thing about
him: what's more impressive is that at the age of just 35 he is the
architect in charge of the project to complete what is arguably the most
complex building ever designed.
....
"I was lying in bed and I realised that right now was the moment to go
and try what I had always planned," he says. "So the next morning I
called the school and told them I wouldn't be attending, had my friend
ship my stuff back to Germany, flew back, borrowed a friend's car, drove
to the OMA office in Rotterdam and said: 'I want to work here.'"
....
For his part, Scheeren says: "The media are very much persona-focused
and there is often one name everyone sticks to. And very often nobody
mentions OMA but only Rem's name when they are talking about certain
buildings. But it's not the same anymore."
With CCTV, OMA looks set to redefine the traditional notion of a
skyscraper, and it couldn't be more timely - the number of skyscrapers
being built in Asia has recently surpassed that being built in the US.
As for Scheeren, while he clearly has no interest in propagating his own
myth, you get the feeling that if a new generation of architects are
going to ascend to "star" status, none are more deserving of it than him.
cont'd....
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article358977.ece