Groundbreaking 16 November 1999 Floor area 5,600m Services engineer RTB Van Heugten Height 48 m Floors 10 Architecture firm Meyer en Van Schooten | Floor count 10 Structural engineer Arup, Aronsohn Main contractor Heijmans Opened 16 September 2002 Province North Holland Inaugurated 16 September 2002 | |
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ING House is the former headquarters of ING Group at the business district Zuidas of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is nicknamed the shoe or the dustbuster (Dutch: de kruimeldief). The postmodern design is by Amsterdam-based architects Meyer and Van Schooten (Meyer en Van Schooten). The construction, which took place from November 1999 to September 2002, was undertaken by Heijmans.
Map of ING House, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The building is constructed like a table on 16 angled steel legs. These are independent of each other, resting on pins in large concrete blocks in the ground, a technique also found in bridge construction. On this platform the floors are built. The belly of the building on the second floor is actually at the height of the highway, as the ground is lower than the highway. From the third floor one has a view of the highway.
In 2012, the headquarters of ING Group moved to the Bijlmermeer. In 2014, ING subsidiary Nationale-Nederlanden also moved from the building.