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Amsterdam Architecture Tours

post updated 27 February 2026

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Dutch architectural guides for visitors to the Netherlands. City building walks tailor made for groups visiting Holland.

Amsterdam Architecture Tour: Exclusive Guided Walks – Introduction

e-architect have architectural tour guides in most of the key cities across Europe.

Our guided Amsterdam architecture tours are all tailored to suit each booking we do not allow for bookings to be joined. Our guided architecture tours in Amsterdam are all exclusive to each client.

Nhow Amsterdam RAI Hotel Building design by architects OMA / Reinier de Graaf:

picture courtesy OMA

Amsterdam Architecture Walking Tours

Should you be planning a conference, an office trip, or university trip in Amsterdam please contact us and we would be happy to take your booking.

Amsterdam is the largest Dutch city and the capital of The Netherlands. It is located roughly in the centre of the country, close to the North Sea. The city has a wealth of good contemporary architecture, all possible to visit on our Amsterdam Architectural Walking Tours.

Recent key openings include the renewed Rijksmuseum building and the exuberant Stedelijk Museum renewal and extension. A major new building on the waterfront is the spectacular EYE Dutch Film Museum by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects:

photo © Rene den Engelsman

Famous architects with buildings in the city include Dutch architects OMA, MVRDV, UNStudio, Mecanoo architecten, Gerrit Rietveld, Aldo van Eyck. Key ones from outside The Netherlands are Kisho Kurokawa, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Delugan Meissl and EMBT. Other key architects with work in the city include 3XN Architects, de Architekten Cie., Benthem Crouwel, Rafael Vinoly Architects and Bennetts Associates.

The Bow Overhoeks Amsterdam apartments building design by Orange Architects:

photography : Sebastian van Damme, Tom de Kort, Emile Hoens

Booking.com Amsterdam workplace building, Oosterdokseiland building design by Architect: UNStudio ; Lead Interior Architect: HofmanDujardin:

photo : Matthijs van Roon

WoZoCo building design by Dutch architects MVRDV:

photograph © Adrian Welch

Dutch Capital Walking Guides

Amsterdam Architecture Tours can focus on historical buildings, contemporary buildings or a mixture of both. The Amsterdam Architecture Tour is typically an introduction to the city’s newest buildings, but it can be tailored to your group’s interests, for example social housing or retail interiors.

We can provide limited advice for Walking Tours of Amsterdam about types and areas of buildings. Our guides for the Amsterdam Architectural Tours should be able to meet your needs and interests.

European HQ for Calvin Klein & Tommy Hilfiger building designed by MVSA Architects, based in The Netherlands:

photo © MVSA Architects / Ronald Tilleman

We can provide information on programme, geographical areas and building types up to a year ahead of your Dutch architectural walking tour. For example, a group of architects interested in innovative Dutch housing or office buildings could be provided with tailored information allowing an architectural tour programme to be agreed prior to their visit to The Netherlands.

You can visit DeFlat Kleiburg, Apartment Building, Winner of the Mies van der Rohe 2017 Awards, by Dutch architects NL Architects.

Our guides typically meet visitors at the starting point of their Dutch walking tour, but by request might be able to meet them from the airport or their hotel accommodation.

We can also do combined building tours with Rotterdam, the other major city in The Netherlands.

Amsterdam Architecture

Blauwe Theehuis is a delightful 1930s Modernist pavilion building. In the heart of the most vibrant and well-known park in Amsterdam: the Vondelpark, Brouwerij ‘t IJ has adapted a unique monument as its latest taproom. An instantly recognisable former tearoom – Blauwe Theehuis – was carefully redesigned by Studio Modijefsky, who has mastered the tricky art of playing homage to a historic property while keeping it contemporary and fresh.

Amsterdam Walking Tours

Contact e-architect to arrange your architectural tour of the Dutch capital: isabelle(at)e-architect.com / mobile .

Architecture Tours

e-architect also organise architecture walking tours in other West European cities such as Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Berlin, London, Glasgow, Barcelona, Oslo and Paris.

Architecture Walking Tours

image courtesy of architects office

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, western Europe.

Dutch Capital Architectural Designs

Amsterdam Architecture Center : Arcam
Design: René van Zuuk architect
Amsterdam Architecture Center – a great place to start amsterdam architecture tours.

Sporenburg houses – Borneo Photos : Dutch capital city dockland residential architecture
Design by various architects

WoZoCo Amsterdam Housing for the Elderly
Design: MVRDV
This Dutch residential building was the first housing complex realized by MVRDV. The large housing corporation client wanted 100 units for elderly people with a gallery-type circulation. However, the units did not fit the site in an acceptable way, so MVRDV architects were invited to solve the problem.

Diamond Exchange, Capital C Amsterdam
Design: ZJA

Underground Bicycle Parking Leidseplein
Design: architectural studio ZJA

ING Cedar Bank HQ in Cumulus Park, Amsterdam Zuidoost
Design: Benthem Crouwel Architects and HofmanDujardin

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