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2024-05-17T22:25:39-04:00
https://archinect.com/news/article/150355025/unstudio-completes-booking-com-city-campus-hq-in-amsterdam
UNStudio completes Booking.com City Campus HQ in Amsterdam
Josh Niland
2023-06-28T14:39:00-04:00
>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/46/46bd09c550627f394b5a029fcc165bf5.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>A new HQ project from <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/1138/unstudio" target="_blank">UNStudio</a> for the Dutch travel site Booking.com has opened in Amsterdam, offering a dynamic central location it says will serve as a “recruitment machine” while creating a more inclusive, healthy, and socially engaging experience for the company’s 6,500 employees.</p>
<p>Video courtesy UNStudio on Vimeo.</p>
<p>Designed to maximize connectivity for its users and visitors to the campus’ Oosterdokseiland location, the nearly 700,000-square-foot plan creates a highly-visible, activities-laden consolidation of disparate office locations that, for over a decade, had been spread throughout the city.</p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/17/179f0fa3ff6aeabe72a9128d0ea46d07.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/17/179f0fa3ff6aeabe72a9128d0ea46d07.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image: © Hufton + Crow</figcaption></figure><p>Anchored by a striking main building made of glass and steel and sited on a double-height plinth that creates an urban element underneath and around a cantilevered overhang, the development was influenced by years of research into comparable corporate headquarters and engenders a “platform for human activity,” the architects say. </p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/04/047c02f67736745baebcecd8b28ce50f.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/04/047c02f67736745baebcecd8b28ce50f.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image: © Hufton + Crow</figcaption></figure><p>A network o...</p>