Take a look at The Bank. No, this isn’t a Hollywood movie, but the name of a beautiful Starbucks concept store in Amsterdam.
Opened on March 8, 2012, the 430 square metre (4,500 sqf) store is located in the vault of the historic Amsterdamsche Bank. Among other things, it features a floor-to-ceiling mural celebrating the history of Dutch coffee traders, repurposed Dutch oak throughout the space, antique Delft blue tiles, a ceiling sculpture created from 1,876 hand-cut wooden blocks, and a wall clad in recycled bicycle inner tubes.
At the Coffee Theatre, baristas will “develop new coffee brewing methods” and offer “small batch reserve coffees available nowhere else on the continent.”
If you are a Twitter user, you can try following Starbucks’ tweets. For example, the bakery tweet out ‘warm cookies’ the minute a fresh batch rolls out of the oven.
Credit: Starbucks
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Herengracht 595 1017 CE
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Mar 11, 2012
1
Starbucks is No:1 in this worldwide.
Mar 11, 2012
5
There’s one in Hong Kong also. It looked like the old HK cafe! Located at Central at Hong Kong Island. Not as big or extensive as the one you shared though:)
Mar 12, 2012
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Awww thanks for sharing! My friend told me about the Starbucks store in Hong Kong too. In fact I just came back from HK yesterday, but totally forgot to check it out arrrrghhhhhh
Mar 13, 2012
1
Looks incredible.
I’m not a big fan of Starbucks (ex-caffeine junkie!), but you can’t fault them for their sense of design. They changed the industry.
Mar 16, 2012
14
Check out this Starbucks in Dazaifu, Japan. Really cool design!
http://www.dezeen.com/2012/02/23/starbucks-coffee-at-dazaifu-tenman-gu-by-kengo-kuma-and-associates/