After a decade of fruitful collaboration with Dutch NL Architects and Danish PLOT/BIG – the past three years as respectively associate and head of communication - Niels Lund Petersen and Jennifer Dahm Petersen opened their own architectural practice OP. At NL Architects the couple was involved in the groundbreaking projects ’Funen Blok K’ and ‘Basket Bar’ among others. At BIG Niels designed several remarkable projects such as: ‘Slussen’ and ’Danish Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010′, while Jennifer headed the PR and prequalification department, which lead to participation in numerous prestigeous projects, and subconsequently increased the office’s international success. The financial crisis that followed the economic boom, and the easy and fast architecture of the Zeroes, has left a vacuum. Activity in the commercial building industry is historically low, leaving us time to reflect on how architecture can become part of a new artistic – social and political agenda. As we enter a new epoch of global responsibility and sustainability we have to act wiser, and we have to rethink architecture. OP is an Open Platform for developing new ideas and technologies to minimize the human imprint on nature at all levels; by using fewer lines to produce a drawing, using fewer words to make a statement – less material more meaning. OP is constantly focusing on content and quality to challenge the boundaries between architecture and art, trying to establish the ultimate environment for architectural experiment and artistic expression