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post updated 18 July 2024

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e-architect select what we feel are the key examples of contemporary Amsterdam Architecture. We aim to include buildings in the Dutch capital that are either of excellent quality.

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We cover completed buildings plus new building designs across Amsterdam. Our focus is on contemporary Dutch buildings.

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We have 3 pages of Amsterdam building selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages.

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Amsterdam Building – Latest Designs

Dutch Architecture News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

Amsterdam Architecture News

18 June 2024
Mahler 1 office building
Design: 3XN GXN

photo : Binyan
Mahler 1 office building

11 July 2023
360 Degrees, IJ river / Grasweg
Design: Studioninedots

photo : Sebastian van Damme
360 Degrees Building Amsterdam

29 June 2023
Booking.com Amsterdam workplace, Oosterdokseiland
Architect: UNStudio ; Lead Interior Architect: HofmanDujardin

photo : Matthijs van Roon
Booking.com Amsterdam workplace building

12 Feb 2018
Van der Valk Hotel, Zuidas District
Design: Wiel Arets Architects (WAA)

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Van der Valk Hotel
With origins as a highway-centric motel chain for travelers by automobile; Van der Valk is an international company, whose roots are Dutch, and whose hotels are almost always sited adjacent to highways, providing standard lodging and dining for those traveling long distances by car.

Favelous 963 – Pop up restaurant – 28 Jun 2013
Design: Favelous, Architects

photo : Arne Kuilman
What can you make out of 900 meters of split bamboo, 600 meters of black rope and 300 meters of damaged bicycle tires collected from the local stores? The Favelous team made a pop-up restaurant at Mediamatic Fabrique in Amsterdam.

Ziggo Dome
Benthem Crouwel Architects

photo : Jannes Linders
Ziggo Dome – 29 Nov 2012
The sign becomes the building: brightly lit and dark at the same time, the impressive Dome shall not go unnoticed when passing by. This Dutch building is covered with 120,000 LED fixtures, allowing the facade to appear as a video screen on all sides. The 10,000 sqm screen can be used for announcements or to show what is happening inside.

De Kameleon, The Bijlmer, Amsterdam Zuidoost
NL Architects

photo : Luuk Kramer
De Kameleon Amsterdam – 10 Jul 2012
De Kameleon is a supersized housing block including a new shopping center and plenty of parking in the area formerly known as Bijlmermeer. The Bijlmer is the one area in the Netherlands that sometimes is considered a ghetto. At the moment the area is going through a radical renovation process: an attempt is being made to turn it into a regular Dutch suburb. Standard low-rise housing is introduced that replaces the 10 storey apartment buildings but also the green spaces in-between them.

Drug Addict Hotel
Atelier Kempe Thill

photo © Ulrich Schwarz
Junky Hotel Amsterdam – 26 Jun 2012
The Amsterdam-Bijlmermeer housing development, which was erected in the nineteenseventies based on CIAM principles under the direction of Siegfried Nassuth, has been being overhauled since the mid-nineteen-nineties due to a wide range of social and structural problems. In this case, urban renewal means, above all, radically demolishing large-scale, honeycombed housing blocks and replacing them with differentiated, smallscale block development and terraced housing.

Amsterdam International Golf Club, Schiphol
Mecanoo architecten

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Amsterdam International Golf Club – 7 Jun 2012
Construction begins on the new clubhouse for the Amsterdam International Golf Club Schiphol. The new exclusive golf club is located next to Schiphol Airport, a stone’s throw from Amsterdam’s Zuidas business district. The 2,000 m² clubhouse is designed by Mecanoo and features, in addition to a high end restaurant, a fitness and wellness centre with luxury dressing rooms, lounges, terrace and roof terrace for parties and events.

Amsterdam Iconic Bridge Competition
[AC-CA] Design Contest

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Amsterdam Iconic Bridge Competition – various designs
The winning project was able to combine an iconic proposal with a real urban solution. A circuit bringing us to the heights or depths, a partially submerged Ring on an extraordinary equilibrium. It swims and at the same time threatens to fly. It is a solution that engages the user to ponder on the decision of which path to choose: the underwater for a romantic and exploring passage or aerial for a bright and direct path ‐ Ring of pedestrian and environmental activity.

EYE Dutch Film Museum
Delugan Meissl Associated Architects

photo © Rene den Engelsman
EYE Dutch Film Museum

Amsterdam Architecture

Key Buildings in the Dutch Capital, alphabetical:

Amsterdam Architecture Center : Arcam
René van Zuuk

photograph © Luuk Kramer
Amsterdam Architecture Center

Animal Refuge Centre Building
arons en gelauff architecten

photograph : Luuk Kramer
Animal Refuge Centre

Anne Frank House Museum Building
Benthem Crouwel

picture © Adrian Welch
Anne Frank museum

Bijlmer Park Theatre
Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter

photo : Pieter Kers
Bijlmer Park Theatre

Bijlmer Station Extension
Grimshaw

picture © Ger Van Der Vlugt
Amsterdam station building

Borneo Sporenburg Houses
Design: various architects incl. Miralles & MVRDV

image © AW
Borneo houses : Dockland architecture

Mint Hotel Amsterdam
Bennetts Associates

photo : Peter Cook
Mint Hotel Amsterdam

The Music Building – Muziekgebouw
3XN Architects

image © Adrian Welch
Muziekgebouw Amsterdam Architecture

Nemo Building
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)

photo © Isabelle Lomholt
Nemo Amsterdam

Sarphatistraat Offices
Design: Steven Holl Architects

photo : Alan Mason
Amsterdam offices

Stedelijk Museum Facade – The Bathtub
BenthemCrouwel Architects

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Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam building

Amsterdam Architects

Amsterdam Buildings – Historical Architecture in the Dutch capital city

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europe

Contemporary Dutch Architectural Projects

UNStudio : Dutch architecture practice

Noord Publiek Amsterdam Exhibition + Symposium

Mecanoo – Dutch architecture studio

Amsterdam Church buildings

Amsterdam Canal Photos

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