Ellen Van Loon

Ellen van Loon is partner in charge of a large number of the projects at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture including many of the office’s recent completions. The most recent being the award winning Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto which was a finalist for the 2007 RIBA Stirling Prize and the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin which received the 2005 Mies van der Rohe – European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Ellen is responsible for large number of the offices building projects in Europe including the Cordoba Congress Center in Spain and the renowned Mercati Generali development in Rome, Italy, the headquarters of N M Rothschild & Sons, one of the world's leading independent investment banking organizations, in London, De Rotterdam mixed-use towers in Rotterdam, the Danish Architecture Centre in Copenhagen and a Science Center and Aquarium in Hamburg’s Hafen City. In the last year she has also begun work on OMA’s projects in the Gulf region and is responsible for thre