Office Real Estate and Services Special
‘GREEN REAL ESTATE IN TRULY GREEN SURROUNDINGS’
The renewal of the area between Amstelveen and Amsterdam is steadily taking
additional student residences. Then this is
shape. The neighbourhood already has many ingredients for a healthy mix, including
the largest campus in Europe. Openness
sport facilities, schools, offices and hotels. Anne Meijerhoven of Zadelhoff Beheer
and transparency will help create a
and Tom Hilderink of Maarsen Groep are working hard on the development of a new
spacious and dynamic character here.
green office building in truly green surroundings. Adjoining the Kronenburg Campus, this new office property will be an accessible link with Amsterdam’s Zuidas.
Share culture That openness is central to the building’s
The new eight-storey office building
built its own building to show how well
design, done by architectural agency de
will add yet another element to what is
it was going, but there was no cohesion
Architekten Cie. Though the building is a
becoming a more mixed district. The
between buildings. This new office
focal point, the eco-minded design allows
partnership between Zadelhoff Beheer
property will be more outwardly oriented
it to blend into its green surroundings.
and Maarsen Groep complements the
to attract more visitors. And with a public
According to Tom, the atrium will be the
vision for a building that’s open and
amenity of some kind, say a restaurant, to
grand unifying factor in the new multi-
engages with its surroundings. Anne
create more engagement.’’ The new zoning
tenant building. ‘’At its heart is a huge
explains, ‘’In the past, every large company
plan for this area offers space for 2,500
green atrium connecting all the floors,
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