Check out this interesting hotel design by Dutch architecture firm WAM architecten. The design looks like a pile of typical green wooden houses stacked on top of each other. It’s the new Inntel Hotel Amsterdam in Zaandam, a town North of Amsterdam. The 4-star hotel has 160 rooms and a total of 11 floors.
What do you think?
Inntel Hotel Zaandam
Inntel Hotel Zaandam
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. All eyes are on Ground Zero, the site of the former World Trade Center, where Daniel Libeskind Memory Foundations is being built. His design won an international competition hosted by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to redesign the WTC site. Libeskind’s entry was one of 7 designs. The others are worth remembering too so have a look at what the new World Trade Center could have been.
London based Foster and Partners design
Peterson/Littenberg design
Richard Meier and Partners
Design by architecture consortium Think
Skidmore design
United Architects
Libeskind Freedom Towers
De Nieuwe Liefde
De Nieuwe Liefde
With the renovation they made sure to maintain and utilise some of the original Neo-Renaissance and Art Nouveau features such as the staircase and extensive stained glass windows throughout. In order to allow natural light to pour in, an expansive skylight was created above the central foyer.
The Government has stepped in to temporarily save the house where Ringo Starr began his life in Liverpool.
Ringo Starrs birth home in Liverpool under threat
The ex-Beatles’ drummer, real name Richard Starkey, was born at 9 Madryn Street in July 1940 and lived there until he was four years old. It is one of 445 pre-1919 terraced houses in the Dingle’s Welsh Streets neighbourhood facing demolition under plans to regenerate the area. A nearby property, 10 Admiral Grove, where Ringo lived for 20 years, will remain standing. English Heritage has twice declined an application to list 9 Madryn Street, saying it is not associated with the success of the Beatles and is not of suffcient architectural or historic importance.
Madryn Street Liverpool
Liverpool City Council has said it would be “impractical” to retain the property on its own as it is in the centre of a terrace. Officials had been set to approve plans to bulldoze the dilapidated properties at a meeting on Tuesday. However, an email and letter sent by Housing Minister Grant Shapps at the 11th hour has forced them to delay making a decision. In the letter, Mr Shapps said there must first consider whether an Environmental Impact Assessment was required – a move that could mean a delay of 12 months or more.
The letter stated: “In exercise of his powers under Article 25 of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2010, the Secretary of State hereby directs your Council not to grant planning permission for this application without special authorisation.”
Mr Shapps’ intervention has been welcomed by Philip Coppell, chairman of the Save Madryn Street campaign. “Number 9 Madryn Street is irreplaceable,” he said. “It’s a precious piece of Beatles history and of vital importance to the city and its growing tourism industry.”
Madryn Street today
The Liverpool homes of John Lennon – Mendips, in Menlove Avenue – and Sir Paul McCartney – in Forthlin Road – are popular tourist attractions run by the National Trust. George Harrison’s childhood home in Arnold Grove remains is privately owned, while the Cavern Club, where the Beatles used to perform, was demolished in the 1970s.
Source: Sky.com
