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Oceans Haarlem offers wonderful light-flooded and biophilic designed office floors combined with their open to public vegan restaurant Mama Gaia. The rough, earthly kitchen- and bar-fronts showcase the plant-based restaurant's 'down with earth' mentality.

Redevelopment of a 70’s office building into an advanced office building, answering to the highest level of sustainability, technology and health.
The atrium in the middle of the connecting office towers will be covered by a big glass dome to become the building’s beating heart.

TANK designs the complete ground floor, providing large scala hospitality facilities, boardroom areas, reception area and auditorium.

Total sqm: 48.000. Tenants: APG, Alliander & Intertrust
Architecture: Architecten Cie

One-bedroom hotel

With a great affinity for rare industrial buildings, we proudly took the opportunity to design the interior for single-suite hotel Von Dice.
Von Dice is built in an iconic concrete former sludge return puping station to purify water for the city of Amsterdam.

The unique, bunker-like building is 21 meters tall with a width varying from 2,8 to only 1,3 meters.
The interior contrasts the rough, ragged concrete building with it's soft yet bold identity.
Due to it’s shape the different rooms are connected by cast staircases that branch out from the bedroom.
Von Dice is designed with sustainability at heart:
- Old steel grids serve as sun blinds to the glass roof
- Layers of natural clay plaster cover the walls, and
- Dutch oak is used for the timber finishings
The redevelopment of this purification station proofs a great love for ‘recycling’ and monumental heritage.

Repurposing with a purpose!

one for all

Met is a new boutique hotel located in Amsterdam New-West. Met stand for 'metropolitan' and everything that is different.
Met hotel is committed to diversity and inlusion, and welcome everyone from locals to tourists.
Met's interior design reflects the neighborhoods diversity with it's eye for detail, pacterend wall and colorful appearance.

IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR

A’DAM&Co is a members club located on the 18th floor of the A’DAM Toren, a multifunctional tower in the north of Amsterdam. In 2016 the A’DAM Toren was created by Amsterdam’s brightest entrepreneurs. The tower hosts observation decks, cafes, start-ups, a 24-hour club, a music school for kids and a revolving restaurant. A’DAM&Co reflects the tower’s creative spirit by bringing together a community of change-makers with a passion for collaboration. The first of its kind in Amsterdam, the club invites all members to curate its program.

Our challenge was to create a place of contrasts; a private club that felt inclusive, warm and familiar yet exclusive, spectacular and prestigious. A place where each member felt special and part of a whole. The circular space offered a breathtaking 360-degree views, but also presented acoustic and zoning challenges. As a solution was we created a grand gesture that gathered members around the core and organically branched into more intimate places.

We took a cue from the tower’s name A’DAM, finding inspiration in the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve gathered around the Tree of Life. A spectacular, abstracted tree shapes the heart of the experience and embraces all members around a grand oval bar. Designed as a freestanding table, the bar creates an informal atmosphere where everyone can mingle freely. The Instagram-worthy wooden tree branches out to define elegant nooks and lounges styled with a mix of antique and modern furniture. The organic framework keeps the space open, inclusive and cohesive, while hiding equipments and stimulating acoustics.

The material palette adds to the poetry of the space with a contrast of simple raw materials like plywood and refined hospitality textures, such as brass and copper. A cool, all-steel, cosmopolitan lobby sets the stage for the rich experience once you’re in.

ADAM&Co is winner of the Restaurant and Bar Design Award for the best European bar.

PARKSIDE ON THE EASTSIDE

Hotel Arena is located in Amsterdam’s major public park Oosterpark, within a listed building dating back to 1886. Once a Catholic orphanage, then a municipal sleep-in and eventually a youth and culture centre, Hotel Arena was re-opened as a 3-starred hospitality destination in 2002. Over the years it transformed into a 4-star hotel, undergoing its final renovation in 2017, including a new wing with additional rooms, an event venue in the restored chapel and an integration of two pavilions. The entrance was moved park-side to benefit from the hotel’s lush location within the city park.

In collaboration with Team V Architecture, we welcomed nature in to design the new spaces. Each area brings the outside in with a warm and natural material palette, complemented by sustainably sourced furniture. Open layouts, plenty of daylight and a greenery transform Hotel Arena into the extension of Oosterpark. One of the major challenges was to preserve the characteristics of the historical building and connect them with the new spaces. We kept the original elements clean and white to showcase the monumental architecture, while giving the new areas a timeless and cozy quality with accent touches like a fireplace or vintage furniture.

The Park cafe-restaurant, housed in one of the new pavilions, is an organic continuation of the park-side entrance. Here nature and urban dwelling seamlessly blend to offer Amsterdammers and visitors alike an escape from city bustle. The outer glass walls remove the indoor-outdoor boundary and give the space an airy quality. Earthy tones of timber and leather are contrasted with concrete and smokey-blue velvet furnishings to create an eclectic urban vibe.

Upon entering, a free-hanging fireplace frames the lounge area to create a convivial welcome. The island bar leads into the dining experience, complete with a prepping counter and a wine display at the back. A wooden floor elevation and a grid of reinforced steel over a timber ceiling intuitively call out the dining area within the space. The cocktail zone around the bar transitions towards greenhouses framed by a series of green trellises, where guests can dwell, work and replenish. During the day Park is a relaxing sanctuary in the heart of the city. At night it’s a vibrant hotspot, beaming with energy and light in the midst of Oosterpark.

PLAZA & VERGADERVLEUGEL

Forget about invisible grey, sweaty offices, boring civil servants, bad air and a lack of view; for the municipality of Amsterdam we made the City Hall's bar, work- and meeting-areas are as welcoming as the city of Amsterdam itself.

Design engineering and execution in collaboration with De Twee Snoeken.

SUSTAINABLE LUXURY

Persijn Juniper&Kin, boardrooms & hotellobby

With the interior design of the QO Amsterdam, we want to prove that sustainable is beautiful. You don’t need to sacrifice comfort or aesthetic pleasure to contribute to a better world. At every step of the QO experience, we celebrate the brand’s ethos of sustainable luxury.

For us, sustainable luxury lives and evolves with its surroundings. It’s always in dialogue with nature and in tune with the senses. That’s why we chose to stage the austere building as the canvas for the experience and use the interior as a “jewel” that adorns it. The building’s authentic structure and materials take the spotlight, amplified by a natural and tactile interior palette. A round shape language and abundant natural light infuse the space with a sense of relaxation and well-being.

The hotel has a rooftop greenhouse for fresh ingredients in the QO kitchens. We re-interpreted this feature into a greenhouse-style framework that becomes a storytelling thread throughout the hotel. The lightweight structure visually links the different floors, defines zones without the use of heavy partitions and brings the daylight in.

Each floor and experience has its own nature-inspired colour scheme to set a distinct mood and intuitively guide the guest. Persijn, the Dutch eatery on the ground floor, features a palette of brown, green and ocher, reminiscent of grain fields. The mezzanine reception celebrates the sensorial opulence of Dutch flower fields. The meeting rooms on the first floor evoke Dutch waters with a cool palette of blues and greys. The rooftop bar Juniper & Kin immerses the guests in the intense tones of a starry night - a perfect pairing for the breathtaking view.

The layout of the space takes after an informal social room with many ways to meet and interact: from enjoying a drink at the bar to lounging on the sofas. The reception island, accessible from all sides, suggests an open and friendly welcome.

All these elements come together into a living, breathing space that syncs with the building and flow of the day, embodying the philosophy behind sustainable luxury.

AT HOME WITH THE STARS

The Loft is a multipurpose penthouse on the 16th and 17th floor of the A’DAM Tower. The design of the rock star condo allows for complete versatility. On the one hand, the double height event space is perfect for hosting a big party, on the other hand it is perfect for private sanctuary. On the 17th floor, TANK designed four bedroom like meeting-rooms for hire. The Loft is an amazing venue up in the clouds, with everything you need to believe you’re a rockstar that’s living the life.

PLEASURE IS THEIR BUSINESS

The Coolsingel cafe in De Bijenkorf Rotterdam welcomes visitors into the department store with a coffee and patisserie experience that will seduce any taste buds. Here, simple everyday pleasures are transformed into a true indulgence with a dash of understated opulence.

The cafe fuses retail and hospitality into one premium destination. Gourmet deluxe products are combined with a relaxing all-day spot to dwell. Upon entrance, visitors are greeted by “boxes of indulgence” that showcase the retail offer. Freestanding mid floor tables highlight key seasonal products and create a meandering landscape for discovery. A grid of wall cabinets puts the gourmet products and their luxurious packaging on the centre stage. We also designed a series of merchandising boxes to highlight and curate the products, catering to diverse sizes and types. The patisserie counter is the theatre of activity within this area, showcasing decadent cakes and pastries behind large glass vitrines that create a feast for the eyes.

Retail transitions into the cafe area with a varied seatingscape for different preferences. The patrons can watch the world go by at the window seating, linger at the cozy banquettes or enjoy a quick coffee at the tables in the middle. The all-day food bar is a destination at the back, offering hot bites, sandwiches, pastries and drinks. The retail cabinets continue into this area as a scenographic backdrop for the counter.

The cafe’s look & feel celebrates De Bijenkorf’s refined identity and the building’s architectural grandeur. Bold shapes and monolithic volumes are balanced with translucency, crafted details and a layering of dark and light materials. A series of mesh screenings, inspired by the brand’s iconic hive pattern, intuitively divide the space and curate in-store views from outside.

ROUND ROUND

MOON, the revolving restaurant located on the 19th floor of the A’DAM Tower offers a unique fine dining experience with a spectaculair 360º panorama of Amsterdam. The floor plan is divided into 4 parts, each segment has a steel screen which is a storytelling point that reinforces the idea that you are on a rotating journey. The wood seating benches are designed in rib-like sections to accentuate the fanning effect of the circular perimeter as it opens up to the view.

COLOUR DAY AND NIGHT

MA'DAM is the panorama bar and restaurant perched on top of the A’dam Tower. During the day it is part of the Lookout Experience - but, as soon as the sun goes down, the volume goes up and it is transformed into Amsterdam’s highest sky bar.

A NEIGHBOURHOOD LIVING ROOM

Café Zurich's interior of robust materials gives the café an authentic and warm ambiance.