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
Got a case of autumn blues? Craving a bit of spring? Yvette Laduk, a young and up and coming Dutch designer, came up with this clever carpet. Turn it around in spring for a dose of crispy autumn leafs or the other way around for a touch of green in the colder months. It measures 155 cm x 236 cm.
Turn the season carpet by Yvette Laduk
Some of you design buffs based in the Netherlands might have seen this before as it was heavily featured in the national press, but I still want to share it on my blog.
De Omval Houseboat designed by +31 architects
This houseboat in the Amstel river in Amsterdam was designed by +31 Architects. They are known for other houseboat projects in the Amsterdam area. The boat is a streamlined glass panes design allowing maximum use of natural light. It reminds me a bit of the Elicium building at the Rai conference center, designed by Benthem Crouwel architects.
Houseboat de Omval by +31 architects
The boat might be very modern, but it was designed to reflect the shape of other houseboats in the canals and rivers of Amsterdam. Neighbours and council alike are very enthusiastic about it. Personally, I feel like I have seen it before.
What do you think?
Posted in Design, designers and online finds, Unusual homes
Tagged +31 architects, Amsterdam, Boat, Boats, Canals, De Omval, Dutch Design, house, Houseboat
While getting my daily real estate fix on Funda, I stumbled across this remarkable project. In an old gunpowder factory building along the river Amstel, a little south of Amsterdam, Dutch designer Marcel Wanders designed these 7 apartments aptly called suites.
Marcel Wanders designed Amstel Suites
Granted, they are stunning, but with the location right along the highway and the suites measuring an average of 530 square feet (about 50m2), they are priced pretty steep. The smallest one has an asking price of €259.000 and measures a mere 430 square feet. The lay out is very clever with a small pantry, a lush ensuite bathroom with bath, and high vaulted ceilings. The most expensive is quite a bit larger, 624 square feet. The living room is bigger, and the ground floor has enough space to house the bathroom. The bedroom is in the mezzanine. The asking price is €355.000.
Marcel Wanders designed Amstel Suites
I wonder who the developer is trying to target. The suites are too far from the city to be considered an easy commute after a night’s out. They are too close to the highway for that outdoors/countryside feel, and they are very much a single persons abode. So basically they target people living alone, with a decent budget, who do not want to live in the city….. In all honesty, they have many alternatives. If they had converted the building into two or three moderate sized family homes, they would have been able to target a bigger audience.
Marcel Wanders designed Amstel Suites
Check out the suites at the project website.
Photographs courtesy of Ouwehand v/d Meijden Makelaars
