Amsterdam

In the historically neglected but now-vibrant northern half of Amsterdam, the eclectic firm Space Encounters fits right in.

- Akiva Blander

“It’s very difficult if we’re partners to reach a consensus,” says Stijn de Weerd of Space Encounters, the Amsterdam-based architecture office he helms with three partners. “But we all know what we don’t want by just eliminating the things that aren’t logical or rational and taking that to the extreme.” It’s a curious work process, but one that jibes with the heterogeneity of the studio’s body of work, which has been growing in recent years in both quantity and scale.