Editing Rem Koolhaas (section)

===21st-century projects===
[[File:Beijingskyscraperpic9.jpg|thumb|[[CCTV Headquarters]], Beijing, China]]
Probably the most costly and celebrated [[Office for Metropolitan Architecture|OMA]] projects of the new century were the massive [[CCTV Headquarters|Central China Television Headquarters Building]] in Beijing, China, and the new building for the [[Shenzhen Stock Exchange]].

In his design for the new CCTV Headquarters in Beijing (2009), Koolhaas did not opt for the stereotypical skyscraper, often used to symbolise and landmark such government enterprises; he patented a "horizontal skyscraper" in the U.S. The building, popularly called "The Big Pants" by Beijing residents, was designed as a series of volumes which attempt to tie together the numerous departments onto the nebulous site, but also introduce routes (again, the concept of cross-programming) for the general public through the site, allowing them some degree of access to the production procedure. An unfortunate incident that highlighted the folly of the circulation scheme (no effective fire egress for people on the upper floors), was the construction fire that nearly destroyed the building and a nearby hotel in 2009.<ref>David Flumenbaum, ""CCTV Headquarters Fire: Rem Koolhaas Building Survives Blaze," ''Huffington Post,'' 12 March 2009; updated 6 December 2017.</ref> In discussions of his design, Koolhaas has expressed his optimism for socialist development in China and critiqued the capitalist system for leading to architectural failure through its decentralizing of large organizations and discouragement of communication.<ref name=":Zhu">{{Cite book |last=Zhu |first=Tao |title=Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution |date=2016 |publisher=[[Harvard University Asia Center]] |isbn=978-0-674-73718-1 |editor-last=Li |editor-first=Jie |series=Harvard Contemporary China Series |volume= |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |chapter=Building Big With No Regret: From Beijing's "Ten Great Buildings" in the 1950s to China's Megaprojects Today |doi= |jstor= |editor-last2=Zhang |editor-first2=Enhua}}</ref>{{Rp|pages=78-79}}

In February 2020, his exhibition ''Countryside, The Future'' opened at the Guggenheim in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Countryside, The Future |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/countryside |access-date=2022-06-15 |website=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> The exhibition closed within a month, after New York City closed all its major art institutions in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.