The building at Elementenstraat 25 once served as an underground club, one of the city’s early rave venues. Now it’s home to AMAZE, an immersive audiovisual experience spanning more than 3,000 square meters that you can explore at your own pace. No display cases, no explanatory signs. Instead, there are eight rooms, each creating its own world with lasers, lights, sound, and smoke.
Behind the concept is ID&T, the company that has been shaping the Dutch dance scene for over thirty years. Awakenings, Sensation, Defqon.1, Mysteryland, DGTL: the names that have drawn millions of festivalgoers. With AMAZE, they’re taking that same festival-grade technology and turning it into a permanent attraction. No lineup, no stage—but the same laser and lighting installations you’d normally find on a main stage.
What sets AMAZE apart from a light show or an art installation is the interaction. Sensors and cameras track where you walk and how you move, and the space reacts accordingly. Smoke rises, light shifts with you, and sound changes direction. Each space has its own atmosphere and theme, structured as a series of separate worlds that you pass through one by one. It feels less like a museum and more like a stage set where you yourself become part of the show.
The tour lasts about an hour and consists of seven to eight themed zones, each with its own laser and light shows and interactive multimedia installations. No two areas are alike: while one overwhelms you with bright colors and loud beats, the next is quieter and darker. At the end of the route, the AMAZE Lounge awaits, where you can relax with a cocktail and recover from what you’ve just experienced.
The building, with its rave history, is thus given a new purpose, without completely losing its industrial roughness. Anyone who leaves the dance floor will emerge about an hour later with hands damp from the smoke and ears still ringing. It’s exactly the feeling that ID&T, after thirty years of organizing festivals, knows how to evoke flawlessly—only without a tent and without having to wait for a performance.