Inntel Hotel in Zaandam, The Netherlands
Inntel Hotel owns several hotels in different cities around
the Netherlands. Their latest, opened in the town of Zaandam in 2010 is
an eye-stopper. This 4 star hotel situated next to the Zaandam train
station looks like a pile of houses stacked on top of each other. The
houses were designed to appear like traditional Dutch houses with
designs ranging from a notary’s residence to a worker’s cottage. Almost
70 individual houses are stacked within the main body of the structure
executed in four shades of the traditional green of the Zaan region. The
core of the hotel is concrete, while the "houses" that rise up are
timber and clapboard. The 11-story and 40 meter high building provides
160 guest rooms, a swimming pool, wellness centre, Turkish baths and a
restaurant-bar.
