HEYLIGERS Architects

HEYLIGERS architects is an Amsterdam and Utrecht practice founded in 1988 by Willem Heyligers, working in architecture and interior architecture with a particular appetite for what already exists. Transformation, reorganisation and reuse are the core of the office: offices turned into housing or hotels, restaurants and wellness centres fitted into old shells, shops, private houses and listed monuments brought back into use.

That expertise in reworking buildings is what the practice brought to Capital C in Amsterdam, the conversion of the former Diamond Exchange with ZJA, which won at the Architecture & Design Collection Awards in 2023. Recent work includes Berghaus Plaza, the renovation and new build of the Ronald McDonald Huis Emma, and a sculptural object for the atrium of Valley.