Architects:MVSA Architects

Area :32900 m²

Year :2018

Photographs :Barwerd van der Plas, Mathijs Witbaard, Gareth Gardner, Suitable Images

Manufacturers :  AutoDeskAutoDesk

Bdg Architecture + Design : Cat-A and Cat-B architects and interior designers for occupier

Clients : Vastint, Peak Development

City : Amsterdam

Country : The Netherlands

We reimagine a 1970s office behemoth as an icon for a new era. Rivierstaete is located in the Rivierenbuurt, in the south of Amsterdam. It’s a neighbourhood that is defined by the Amstel, the river that has played such a huge role in the city’s history, even giving it its name: ‘the dam on the Amstel’.

Over the centuries, artists and architects from Rembrandt onwards have found inspiration in the river. We followed suit, making it our aim to connect the Rivierstaete building to the Amstel and its surroundings – even though it had been detached from them before.