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KEEPING IT REAL

Adyen has opened its headquarters’ doors in the former Hudson’s Bay department store in Amsterdam, designed by Amsterdam-based interior design studio TANK. TANK designs offices that encourage encounter, involvement and cooperation. The interior design for Adyen reflects the company’s ambition of achieving every kind of connectivity: with each other, with the market, with the city and with the wider world.

Core values and design
TANK has taken Adyen’s core values as the inspiration for its design: transparent, open, fast-moving, straightforward, connected to the rapidly changing world, focused on meaningful interaction and unafraid to follow its own path. These values translate into a design that offers a versatile, personal and professional interior with expertly planned, flexible and sustainable workplaces. To retain the existing ‘department-store feel’, all floors remain open to let in plenty of daylight and provide space for abundant natural greenery. Furniture with low contours maximizes the views and offers a sense of space, connecting inside with outside on every level.

Connectivity is key
The office should invite people to relax and connect, as individuals and as teams. The interior design underlines this connectivity throughout the building in several ways. A shared staircase unites all floors, providing a social space for spontaneous encounters and phone calls. Communal areas on each floor provide places to meet, consult and collaborate, without disturbing colleagues engaged in more concentrated tasks. With an emphasis on togetherness, Adyen had decided to create a large, knock-out kitchen serving lunch for the whole team in a setting that offers stunning city views. The kitchen is flexible and can easily be converted into a workspace.

Materials and sustainability
TANK loves to use the everyday in unexpected ways as a source of inspiration and recognition. For example, it has had the building’s former sanitary facilities and old roof tiles ground down and turned into unique bricks. These have been used to produce custom-made furniture pieces. The entire 17,000 m² office consists of only 20 interior elements that recur in alternating patterns