Opposite Office

Opposite Office is a Munich studio for architecture, the city and everything in between, founded in 2017 by Benedikt Hartl. It designs, builds, writes and invents spaces, sometimes as buildings and sometimes as concepts that keep building in people’s heads, moving between private and public work, competitions, research and experiment at every scale from a birdhouse to an urban strategy.

Built work includes the Utopiemobil and a 10,000 m² workshop for people with disabilities in Rosenheim, while speculative projects such as the Affordable Palace, which imagines Buckingham Palace turned into social housing, and Nord Stream 3 have travelled widely in the press. Hartl teaches at the Hochschule Kaiserslautern, received the Rome Prize Villa Massimo in 2024, and the studio was named most provocative architecture studio in 2023.