Founded in 2002, m2r-architecture had recently completed its first large-scale and award-winning sports project, the Vogtland Arena, a spectacular ski jump in Klingenthal, Germany. m2r's particular focus on construction and self-proclaimed "German efficiency" was indebted to the three founding partners' early experience as construction workers, an approach which extended to all public, private, interior, commercial and urban endeavours of the practice.