The name of my office, ANTARCTIC, unites my first name and my profession: Antoine-architect. With a name like that, one is easily led to think of Antarctica, the South Pole. That is no coincidence. The name includes its opposite, the North Pole: Ant-Arctica. A duality which agrees with my principal working method. In my work, I like to start out from contrasts. They create a tension and ambiguity within any architectonical design. Think of opposites like transparent-opaque, warm-cold, light-dark, open-closed and clear cut-labyrinthic.