Dutch studio OMA has introduced that its long-term associate Ellen van Loon is leaving after 26 years to “enter a brand new part in her life”.
Van Loon joined OMA in 1998 and have become a associate in 2002, engaged on tasks akin to the enduring CCTV headquarters in Beijing, the 'vertical metropolis' growth De Rotterdam and, extra not too long ago, the Aviva Studios occasion area in Manchester.
OMA introduced Van Loon's retirement on its web site earlier this week, saying she determined to go away the studio to liberate extra time to start out a brand new chapter in her life.
Earlier than her departure, she was the one girl among the many eight companions on the studio.
“After 26 years with us, Ellen has indicated that she desires to enter a brand new part in her life the place she has extra time for herself,” OMA mentioned.
“It goes with out saying that we deeply remorse her resolution,” the studio continued. “Ellen has been a trusted colleague and a robust drive inside our agency for many years. She can be and can stay an expensive buddy to us all.”
Based mostly within the Rotterdam workplace, Van Loon has developed a portfolio together with Maggie's Middle in Glasgow and New Courtroom Rothschild Financial institution in London, which have been each shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2012.
She has additionally labored on the reworking of the Dutch authorities workplaces Rijnstraat eight, the Nationwide Library of Qatar, a blocked glass growth for the Blox structure heart and co-working area in Copenhagen and the transformation of a 19th century construction th in Paris in a gallery for the Galeries Lafayette Basis.
OMA was based in 1975 by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas along with Elia Zenghelis, Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis.
Latest tasks accomplished by the studio embrace a bridge in Bordeaux, supposed to develop into a public area, and an early 1900s bakery in Detroit that has been remodeled into an artwork heart.