The office Benthem Crouwel Architects operate from is discovered midway along the railway line from Amsterdam Central Station to Schiphol Plaza, below the approach route of lane 22-04, in a business park off the A10 orbital road. These are spacious premises, with a concrete construction common to industrial buildings of the seventies; using the simplest architectural means and a welter of state-of-the-art technology they have been primed to receive an architects’ studio. On the ground floor are workshops, a restaurant, archives and a garage. The studio itself, the meeting rooms and computer bays are on the first floor ranged around a roof garden. A long entrance hall entirely clad in zinc-coated steel panelling thrusts its way through the building. In this hall, used for holding exhibitions, giving talks and making presentations, is a central stair stitching all the Lab’s spaces together. The interior of the studio is an open area of scattered ‘work-islands’, thus reflecting the structure of the practice, where the work is done in flexible project teams.