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Booking.com Campus Amsterdam

Let’s meet in Tuscany, grab a coffee in Panama City and talk strategy in the Serengeti! All this is possible in the innovative new urban campus of leading travel platform Booking.com in Amsterdam. A unique collaboration of multiple interior architects and design firms has resulted in an inclusive workplace that is home to over 6,500 employees.


The Booking.com working environment offers a diverse variety of spaces. As Lead Interior Architect, HofmanDujardin designed an interior masterplan for the 65,000m² campus building, while the building itself was designed by the Architect UNStudio. The headquarters combine the work of international design firms Linehouse Design, i29, Studio Modijefsky, CBRE Design, UNStudio, HofmanDujardin, Powerplant, Mijksenaar, MOSS, Scholten & Baijings, and Studio Rublek. Together, they created an inspiring environment where employees and visitors will meet, collaborate, live, work and play.


Interior masterplan sketch ground floor
Interior masterplan sketch 2nd floor
Interior masterplan sketch rooftop
 

Interior masterplan sketch ground floor

Interior masterplan sketch 2nd floor

Interior masterplan sketch rooftop

Interior Masterplan

Formerly spread over several locations in Amsterdam, the truly global company Booking.com is powered by employees representing more than 100 nationalities. The interior masterplan was designed around the concept ‘Booking Home’ and aims to create a home for all workers. Every place in the world, every travel destination, is someone’s home. Because everyone has a different idea of home, HofmanDujardin developed a masterplan to embrace diversity. It defined a set of principles and mood boards for several uniquely themed areas. Different area designers were invited to follow those principles but also put their individual design stamp on those areas. Additionally, specialist layer designers were selected to create greenery, lighting, wayfinding and graphics, carpets, and food and beverage throughout the campus.

Diverse Journey

The campus journey starts at the main entrance, which is flanked by digital walls showing travel movies and slow-motion travel mood scenes, such as running water or leaves in the wind. It also offers views up a sweeping staircase and green corridor of plants to the light-filled upper floors. Everything about the entrance says “come in and explore the world with us”. The route leads up to the 1st floor meeting point and recruitment, research and learning centres, and fluently continues to the central atrium on the 2nd floor. This bright and vibrant connecting space offers physical and visual relations with all upper office floors.


Entrance and stairs
Entrance reception
Entrance reception
Entrance immersive screens and waiting lounge
Entrance immersive screens and waiting lounge
 

Entrance and stairs

Entrance reception

Entrance reception

Entrance immersive screens and waiting lounge

Entrance immersive screens and waiting lounge

Restaurants

Meals are taken in one of three restaurants: the 2nd floor Market (designed to give a sense of being in a spacious European market hall), the 5th floor Five Islands (designed as five joined but individually themed zones or ‘islands’) and the 9th floor High Garden with its lush roof garden and panoramic views over Amsterdam.

Restaurant The Market 2nd floor | Area design Linehouse
Restaurant Five Islands 5th floor | Area design Studio Modijefsky
Restaurant High Garden 9th floor | Area design I29
 

Restaurant The Market 2nd floor | Area design Linehouse

Restaurant Five Islands 5th floor | Area design Studio Modijefsky

Restaurant High Garden 9th floor | Area design I29

Designed to connect

Throughout the building are 28 ‘micro-holiday destination’ breakout spaces, each themed on a place. People can stroll through New York City and Rio de Janeiro, chill out in the Greek Islands and visit the Amazon. Together with the larger connector spaces, they offer breaks from computer screens, allowing workers to collaborate, reset their minds and helping them to increase creativity and productivity. Employee photographs and souvenirs from around the world provide more reminders of travel and get people more involved with the building.


Designed to connect people and places, the novel campus is a real destination with a rich diversity of spaces that aims to create a vibrant inclusive community. Filled with lush green plants and awarded with a BREEAM excellent certificate, the office is also a front-runner in sustainability. It offers a great working environment for Booking.com and provides the company with a new home in the heart of Amsterdam.

Break-out New York
Break-out Tokyo
Break-out Serengeti
Break-out Vienna
 

Break-out New York

Break-out Tokyo

Break-out Serengeti

Break-out Vienna

Workplace

Together with CBRE, HofmanDujardin invented the work place concept which can be found all over the campus. With numerous teams spread over the vast work floors, a well-considered and designed layout allows each team to have their own place and identity. Expressive colorful screens embrace the teams and create different levels of concentration.

Workplace project teams

Workplace project teams

By overlooking the full interior design, HofmanDujardin ensured a certain consistency and efficiency and made the interior meet the overall ambitions. This will result in a diverse, yet well-balanced campus for Booking.com and a new home for its employees.

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Project

Booking.com Campus

Description

Masterplan Interior Architecture of the vibrant Booking.com Campus

Client

Booking.com

Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Surface

65.000m²

Date

2017-2023

Services

Masterplan Interior Architecture, Interior Design, Workplace Design and Product Design

Team

Bo Winnubst, David Hernández López, Barbara Dujardin, Bart Wigger, Beatrice Dinoia, Catherine Trebes, Diana Ugnat, Erik Busger op Vollenbroek, James Clark, John D. Ashworth, Joshua Yates, Laurene Gilliot, Linda Schulp, Louise Lebedel, Lucia Bonelli, Luuk van den Berg, Michiel Hofman, Mo Abu Ezza, Naiara Alava Aguirre, Robert-Jan Riemersma, Sara Fontana, Selin Ozeren, Shuyan Lin, Sumeyye Pektas, Vincent de Borger and Cemre Güngör.

Developer

BPD

Architect

UNStudio

Workplace advisor

CBRE

Project Management

CBRE and Royal HaskoningDHV

Area Design restaurant 2nd floor

Linehouse

Area Design restaurant 5th floor

Studio Modijefsky

Area Design restaurant 9th floor

I29

Area Design entrance

HofmanDujardin

Area Design break-outs

HofmanDujardin, I29 and CBRE

Area Design balcony

HofmanDujardin

Area Design Club 11

Linehouse

Area Design auditorium

UNStudio

Layer Design wayfinding

Mijksnaar

Layer Design green

Studio MOSS

Layer Design light

Studio Rublek

Layer Design carpets workplace

Scholten & Baijings

Layer Design F&B

Powerplant

Contractor

Zublin

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