ING House - Another Huge Building on Stilts

Some times back I had posted about Sharp Centre for Design, Toronto - A Huge Modern Building on Stilts, today I present another huge and  a bigger building on stilts - ING House, Amsterdam - the headquarters of Dutch financial Institution ING.

This strange shaped building was designed by Roberto Meyer and Jeroen van Schooten and was officially opened on 16 September 2002 by Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.

Beside being the head office of ING it has a 250 seat auditorium, a library, a good collection of art and 6 inner gardens. The 10 storey high building has a width of 28 metres, length of 138 metres and height of 48 metres.

As per ING webpage it is "constructed like a table on 16 steel legs. The legs stand freely on pins in large concrete blocks in the ground, a technique used in bridge building."

Image Source: Google Street View

Image from Flickr is ING communications

Image from Flickr is by EddieBerman

Image from Flickr is by virgilpix

Image from Flickr is by IK's World Trip

To many its view from the top gives an impression of a large sea cruiser;

Image Source: Google Earth

However to be honest, my 9 years old grandson says that it looks like a giant's shoe.

Image Source: MSN Bing Aerial View

View location in Google Earth / Google Maps and Street View / MSN Bing Aerial View

Source of info and more info: ING official webpage

Credits: I am thankful to Abu-Suboor for bringing this building to my knowledge.