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title: "Mindspace Dam"
description: "Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 162 spent decades as a local bank before Mindspace converted it into a coworking flagship. The building carries heritage protection, which meant the fit-out had to work around the original fabric rather than strip it out, and that compromise shows most clearly one flight u…"
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# Mindspace Dam

Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 162 spent decades as a local bank before Mindspace converted it into a coworking flagship. The building carries heritage protection, which meant the fit-out had to work around the original fabric rather than strip it out, and that compromise shows most clearly one flight up. The Monumental Boardroom keeps its original woodwork, stained-glass windows and the kind of opulent lighting a bank installs to look permanent, and now seats up to 20 people for VIP presentations, strategy sessions and client meetings that benefit from a room with more history than a glass box can offer.

The rest of the building runs across five floors plus a lower level, and Mindspace treats this address as its flagship location in the Netherlands — the site it points to when it wants to demonstrate what the brand can do with an existing building instead of a blank floor plate. Above the boardroom's ground-floor drama, the upper floors hold the more ordinary business of a coworking site: open desks, private offices, a run of bookable meeting rooms, and a lounge that doesn't try to compete with the woodwork downstairs. A first-floor terrace sits above the street, sun-drenched through most of the day, and members use it for lunches, coffee breaks and after-work drinks rather than as a photo backdrop. A Zen Room on site gives a quieter alternative when the open floors get loud.

Six bookable meeting rooms cover most needs here, from a standard room at €60 an hour up to the Monumental Boardroom itself for anyone who wants the full effect. For day-to-day work, Mindspace Daily is a single day of open-plan and lounge access at €29, valid for a month from booking, aimed at anyone testing the location before committing to more. The Location Based Membership at €219 a month buys 24/7 access to the coworking lounges and desks in this specific building, which suits people who work from the same neighbourhood every day and don't need flexibility elsewhere. All Access at €269 a month is the same access but valid at any Mindspace location worldwide, a better fit for anyone who travels between cities or wants the option even if they rarely use it. For private space, the Daily Office is a private office booked by the day at €250, available in two sizes that seat 8 and 15 people — useful for a team offsite, a client workshop or a short project that doesn't justify a lease. For a longer stay, Mindspace Dam rents furnished, serviced private suites by the month, from four workstations up to a thirty-workstation Enterprise Suite, with no fit-out needed. There is an offer on them: sign a suite here for at least six months, with the contract starting before 1 January 2027, and the first month is free. The event space itself, including access to the first-floor terrace, runs €280 an hour and works for anything from a product launch to an evening mixer.

Day to day, the building runs on the same amenities across every floor: hot desks and quiet booths for people who need to concentrate, comfortable lounge areas for the ones who don't, a soda and coffee bar that doesn't require a barista queue, and weekly events for members who want to meet people outside their own team. IT services, business printers and cleaning services are handled by staff rather than left to members, and a staffed reception greets everyone who comes through the door — useful in a building where a client meeting in the boardroom and a freelancer grabbing a hot desk might arrive within minutes of each other. Access is 24/7 for members, the entrance is step-free, and bike storage is on site, which matters more here than it would elsewhere given how much of central Amsterdam moves by bicycle. The Mindspace app handles bookings for desks, rooms and events, and members also get partnerships and discounts with nearby restaurants, cafés, shops and hotels — a practical extension of working in a dense, walkable part of the city rather than a business park.

The location itself does a lot of the work that other coworking sites have to manufacture. The Dam tram stop sits directly in front of the building, served by trams 2, 12, 13 and 17, and Dam Square is right beside it — so anyone travelling in from elsewhere in Amsterdam, or a client meeting a member for the first time, has a single, unambiguous point to head for. It is not a quiet backstreet location, and it is not trying to be; members here trade a slightly busier street for being unmistakably easy to find and easy to reach. The property is well reviewed, with a strong average rating across dozens of reviews on Google, which tracks with a site that has been operating long enough to iron out the rough edges a heritage conversion tends to produce.

Mindspace Dam suits people who want a serious, well-run coworking base in the centre of Amsterdam, in a building with a past and a two-minute walk from one of the city's most recognisable squares. It particularly suits teams that host clients occasionally and want a boardroom that makes an impression, companies that want a furnished suite of their own at a flagship address, and members who value the option to use Mindspace elsewhere without changing their day-to-day membership. Dam Square brings a lively flow of people past the door, part of the energy of working at this address, and the combination of a converted bank, a genuinely striking meeting room and a tram stop at the front door is hard to match anywhere else in Centrum.

- **Location:** Amsterdam
- **Address:** Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 162, 1012 SV Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Operator:** Mindspace
- **Amenities:** 24/7 Access, Bikes Available, Reception, Networking Events, High-speed WiFi, Meeting Rooms, Event Area, Wheelchair Accessible, Printer / Scanner, Free Coffee & Tea, Terrace, Lounge Area, Pet Friendly, Phone Booths, Kitchenette

## Pricing

- Enterprise Suite · 30 workstations (Private Office): €15,600/month
- Private Suite · 20 workstations (Private Office): €10,000/month
- Private Suite · 12 workstations (Private Office): €6,000/month
- Private Suite · 10 workstations (Private Office): €5,000/month
- Private Suite · 4 workstations (Private Office): €2,000/month
- Event Space (Event Space): €280/hour
- All Access (Membership): €269/month
- Daily Office (Private Office): €250/day
- Location Based Membership (Flexible Desk): €219/month
- Bookable Meeting Rooms (Meeting Room): €60/hour
- Mindspace Daily (Day Pass): €29/day

## Nearby transport

- Dam (bus, 1 min walk)
- Nieuwezijds Kolk (bus, 5 min walk)
- Westermarkt (bus, 6 min walk)
- Centraal Station (subway, 10 min walk)
- Nieuwmarkt (subway, 10 min walk)

Source: https://coworkingview.com/en/workspace/mindspace-dam-amsterdam