Already in our very first completed work, our desire to rethink accepted conventions is plainly visible. The Villa VPRO, an office for the Dutch public broadcasting corporation VPRO, makes use of folding, bulging floors to create a variety of unique and charismatic workspaces. It has become an exemplar for the creative office and – given that it was completed in 1997 – was years ahead of its time.

Since these early successes, we have designed innovative and exciting projects that reimagine almost every type of building: from small extensions to family homes to supertall skyscrapers; from intimate housing projects to grand cultural buildings; and from vital public projects such as libraries and government buildings to stores and shopping centres. We love architecture and we love to question, design and reinvent typologies to further develop and ultimately improve them. Finally of course we’ve completed many ‘hybrid’ mixed-use buildings – one of our specialities – which mix together elements of all of the above in unexpected and productive ways.