Westermarkt 2 | Amsterdam

About The Collection

Set within heritage buildings at some of Amsterdam’s most prestigious city-centre addresses, The Collection is an unrivalled network of bespoke, twenty-first-century office space, complete with exceptional amenities and a hospitality-led experience built around you. We call our twelve buildings Chapters. Each one comes as standard with fully equipped meeting facilities, a coffee bar and first-class support staff and systems, yet every Chapter has its own distinct character. Leasing space in one Chapter gives your organisation access to the services and amenities across the whole of The Collection — we even provide e-bikes and an app so you can move seamlessly between Chapters. For our tenants, The Collection opens up a world of extraordinary settings within a single city: secluded gardens, penthouse apartments, even our own private boat for entertaining. From breathtaking boardrooms to first-class fitness facilities, excellence is part of everyday life.

This property forms Chapter 3 of The Collection.

About this Chapter
Situated on the expansive waterside corner of Westermarkt and Keizersgracht, the listed office building known as Huize Labor dates back to 1919, when a double merchant’s house from 1616 was demolished to make way for it. The Latin motto Labor hic omnia vicit (“labour conquers all”) is especially fitting. The building represents the final design of Dutch architect Gerrit van Arkel, whose legacy is well served by this classic example of the craft-centred Amsterdam School movement (part of the wider Expressionist movement), with its expressive forms, decorative brickwork and wrought ironwork.

The striking entrance — confidently topped with the building’s name — and the façade’s distinctive canopied windows leave visitors in no doubt as to where to go. Inside, a lavish lobby opens onto flexible, state-of-the-art office space, its high-end finish complementing the traditional craftsmanship reflected in the original wooden doorframes and stained-glass windows.

The building was always conceived as a hive of industry, and originally housed a distillery in the basement. These days there is no shortage of places to eat and drink right on the doorstep. And of course, Westermarkt 2 is a stone’s throw from the foot of the Westertoren, the 85-metre tower that forms part of the Westerkerk and is one of the city’s most beautiful landmarks.

Availability

A total of 345 sq. m LFA of turn-key practice space is available on the ground floor and lower ground floor of the building.

The space will be delivered including:
• private entrance on Keizersgracht;
• 11 offices/practice rooms;
• kitchen;
• 3 restrooms;
• internal staircase;
• internal lift
• ventilation;
• lighting.