- 11 floors of workspace inside a reimagined 1920s building: coworking lounges, meeting rooms, private offices, an event space, and a sun-lit penthouse floor.
- Tram lines stop at the door, bike storage is on-site, and the whole neighborhood is built for cycling and walking. No car needed.
- Amenities include a parent’s room, outdoor terrace, recreation space, showers, and a dog-friendly policy.
- A community team that keeps events running weekly and makes you feel welcome from day one.
- If Amsterdam isn’t your only city, a WeWork All Access membership takes you across the Netherlands and beyond.
You’re walking through Vondelpark. You reach its northern edge, cross the street, then walk east along the Stadhouderskade. A few minutes later, you find yourself in front of a red-brick building. You check your map and realize, yes, this is it. This is not a museum but a workspace, and not just any workspace.
This is WeWork Stadhouderskade 5-6, or as the locals know it, the Atlanta Building. Built in 1929, this Amsterdam landmark started as a street-level showroom with upstairs offices for an American car manufacturer. Today, the 11 floors of this spectacular location belong to WeWork. If you’re not an Amsterdam native, here’s what that means:
You have 71,012 square feet of workspace sitting right where Centrum meets the Museum Quarter, a few minutes’ walk from Leidseplein, Museumplein, and Vondelpark. The Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum are practically neighbors. You’re working in the heart of one of the most culturally dense neighborhoods in Europe, and it shows. Stadhouderskade 5-6 was designed to make an impression, and a century later, it still does.
Getting there (without a car)
Amsterdam rewards you for not driving, and the Atlanta Building sits in one of the best-connected parts of the city.
Multiple tram lines stop just steps from the front door, including lines that connect to Amsterdam Centraal, Zuidas, and Amstelveen. If you cycle (and in Amsterdam, you probably do), the ride from most central neighborhoods takes 10 to 15 minutes. There’s on-site bike storage with 200 bikes capacity so you’re not locking up to a railing on the canal. There are showers, too, if you need to freshen up after an intense ride. For the occasional rainy day or client meeting across town, taxis and ride-shares have no trouble finding the address.
The building sits on the Stadhouderskade, one of the main ring roads around the old city center. You know where you are, and so does anyone coming to meet you.
First glance inside
You step inside and a century of architecture meets a deliberate interior. The lobby’s original car lift still holds a vintage Chrysler, which gives this impressive building a playful sense of personality. Upstairs, the coworking floors open into bright lounges with earth tones and colorful wall art.
Whichever space you find yourself in, the large windows bring in the kind of natural light that changes throughout the day. You grab a coffee from the barista, find a seat in one of the lounge areas or at a hot desk, and you start working. The space is airy, the Wi-Fi fast, and the building’s varied flexible spaces means there’s always somewhere quieter if you need it.
The focus areas you need
11 floors give you options that smaller locations can’t. Need a private call? Grab a phone booth. Need to present to a client? Book a meeting room through the app. Need three hours of deep work away from conversation? Move to a different floor entirely. The building is large enough for you to switch your environment without having to leave.
The range of private offices here runs from single-person setups to larger team spaces, all secure and fully wired. For growing companies that want a professional Amsterdam address without a traditional lease, this is the kind of building that makes a strong first impression on clients and recruits alike.
There’s also a dedicated event space if you ever need to host something bigger than a conference room can handle: a workshop, a product launch, a team gathering that’s outgrown a screen share.
The amenities that shape your day
Some amenities are nice to have, but others change whether you can realistically spend a full day at a workspace. Stadhouderskade 5-6 has quite a few in the second category.
A parent’s room gives you complete privacy when you need it during the workday. On-site showers mean you can cycle in, run at lunch along the Vondelpark, or just start the morning at the gym without rearranging your entire schedule. A barista is there to prepare your coffee, which you may sip on the 8th-floor terrace overlooking the cityscape. The games and recreation space offers a space to unwind. Last but not least, the dog-friendly policy means your day doesn’t have to start with a guilt trip about leaving your four-legged assistant home alone.
Small details like these are what separate a place you work from and a place that works for you.
A team you can count on
An 11-story building needs a strong community team, and Stadhouderskade 5-6 delivers. They handle the expected (keycards, room bookings, the occasional printer situation) and the less expected (weekly community events, introductions between members, the kind of small gestures that make a new face feel welcome on day one).
With a full building of members across different industries, the event calendar tends to stay full. Check the community board on any given week and there’s usually something happening in the common areas. You don’t need to commit in advance; just pop in for twenty minutes between calls, or stay for the whole thing.
Stepping outside
Vondelpark, Amsterdam’s largest green space, is a five-minute walk. Plenty of members use their lunch break for a loop through the park, which is the kind of midday reset that a phone scroll can’t replicate. Museumplein is around the corner, with the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, and the Stedelijk all within walking distance, useful for impressing a visiting client or just breaking up a Thursday afternoon.
For lunch or dinner with purpose, the surrounding streets have everything from casual terrace spots to upscale options. The neighborhood doesn’t make you choose between convenience and quality.
Not just this building
A WeWork All Access membership gets you into Stadhouderskade 5-6 and the other WeWork locations across Amsterdam. It also gets you beyond city and country lines if your work takes you to London, Paris, or anywhere else in the network.
Some weeks, the Museum Quarter is exactly where you need to be. Other weeks, a meeting across town or a client in another country makes a different location the better call. All Access lets you move without thinking twice. Same app, same keycard.
