OMA's Race to Construct in China

For Ole Scheeren, the lead architect of the controversial new China
Central Television (CCTV) headquarters in Beijing, the "eureka" moment
came during a site visit in April, 2002. Touring the abandoned
motorcycle factories that occupied the land, just east of the Forbidden
City, he caught sight of an old billboard that read, "Adjust during
development. Develop during adjustment."

"This became the prophecy for the period and the motto of the entire
project," recalls Scheeren, speaking by phone from OMA's offices in
Rotterdam, where he has convened to update Rem Koolhaas and his four
other partners on the project's progress (which can be seen in a show
at MoMA in New York City, running from November 15 through February 26,
2007).