UNStudio is an international architectural practice, situated in Amsterdam since 1988, with extensive experience in the fields of urbanism, infrastructure, public, private and utility buildings on different scale levels. At the basis of UNStudio are a number of long-term goals, which are intended to define and guide the quality of our performance in the architectural field. They strive to make a significant contribution to the discipline of architecture, to continue to develop our qualities with respect to design, technology, knowledge and management and to be a specialist in public network projects. They see as mutually sustaining the environment, market demands and client wishes that enable their work, and they aim for results in which their goals and their client’s goals overlap.

In 2009 UNStudio Asia was established, with its first office located in Shanghai, China. UNStudio Asia is a full daughter of UNStudio and is intricately connected to UNStudio Amsterdam. Initially serving to facilitate the design process for the Raffles City project in Hangzhou, it is envisioned that UNStudio Asia will expand to a stable multinational team of all-round and specialist architects.

UNStudio organizes internal inspiration meetings to stay ahead of the game, to get fresh insights from other fields in order to recombine and recontextualize them into their projects. And that is a great thing. So I talked about room, space and place, but without bricks. Trying to give a different view on how architecture could be enhanced by looking at buildings in a different way. How technology could create new possibility as extensions of the ‘hardware’ and what could be learn from for example websites to make buildings, way finding better and more natural. Was awesome.