The folded skin, used in combination with the sloping glass facade, generates a spectacular entrance at the Prins Hendrikkade and gives the building volume an extremely sober perspective at the east side. On the waterside of the building the different levels are visible through the glazed facade.

Seventeen years after it was founded, ARCAM now plays an important part in Amsterdam’s cultural climate; a full-fledged architecture centre which organizes discussions and exhibitions, issues publications and a news bulletin, and which in recent years has added educational, digital and international projects to its activities.