ING House is the former

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ING Group ING Group N.V. () is a Dutch multinational corporation, multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam. Its primary businesses are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, whol ...

at the business district

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, the

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. It is nicknamed "" ( Dutch for ''the

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'') or "" (Dutch for ''hand held

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''). The

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design is by Amsterdam-based architects Meyer and Van Schooten (). The construction, which took place from November 1999 to September 2002, was undertaken by Heijmans. The building is constructed like a table on 16 angled steel legs. These are independent of each other, resting on pins in large concrete blocks in the ground, a technique also found in bridge construction. On this platform the floors are built. The belly of the building on the second floor is actually at the height of the highway, as the ground is lower than the highway. From the third floor one has a view of the highway. In 2012, the headquarters of ING Group moved to the

Bijlmermeer The Bijlmermeer (), or colloquially the Bijlmer (), is a neighborhood in the Amsterdam-Zuidoost borough ( Dutch: ''stadsdeel'') in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The other neighborhoods in Amsterdam-Zuidoost are Gaasperdam, Bullewijk, Venserpolder and ...

. In 2014, ING subsidiary

Nationale-Nederlanden NN Group N.V. is the parent company of NN Investment Partners and Nationale-Nederlanden (). Nationale-Nederlanden is one of the largest insurance and asset management companies in the Netherlands. NN Group is headquartered in The Hague, its of ...

also moved from the building. Since then, the building has been used as a multi-tenant office building under the name "Infinity".

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* 2002 establishments in the Netherlands Amsterdam-Zuid Commercial buildings completed in 2002 Buildings and structures in Amsterdam ING Group 21st-century architecture in the Netherlands {{netherlands-struct-stub