The Edge

Located in Amsterdam’s Zuidas business district, The Edge was designed as Deloitte’s new headquarters and conceived as a workplace for a changing digital age. The project brought together employees previously spread across multiple offices into a single highly connected environment, combining technological innovation with a stronger culture of collaboration and exchange.

At the centre of the building is a large multi-storey atrium conceived as a social condenser, bringing together circulation, meeting spaces and informal working environments within one highly visible internal core. Bridges, exposed lift cores and layered social spaces create a workplace organised around interaction, movement and shared experience rather than fixed hierarchy or static desk space.

Technology is embedded directly into the daily experience of the workplace. Employees use a mobile app to find available desks, locate colleagues and tailor lighting and temperature settings to their individual preferences, while a network of smart sensors continuously monitors occupancy, movement, humidity, CO₂, light levels and internal climate. Together, these systems allow the building to respond in real time to how people use it, creating a workplace environment that is both highly personalised and highly efficient.

The building was also designed to support new patterns of working, with a wide variety of environments tailored to different tasks, levels of concentration and forms of collaboration. Work booths, focus rooms, meeting spaces and open work settings are distributed throughout the building, allowing users to choose the atmosphere and setting that best suits their needs throughout the day.

Environmental performance is embedded throughout the project. Daylight, natural ventilation, energy efficiency and intelligent systems are integrated into the architecture to support both comfort and sustainability, helping establish The Edge as one of the most influential office buildings of its generation. At completion, it achieved the highest BREEAM score awarded to an office building at the time.

The building is conceived as a workplace where architecture, technology and culture are brought together to support a more connected, flexible and future-facing way of working.