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LLOYD HOTEL (RENOVATION)
MVRDV, 1998-2004, Oostelijke Handelskade 34, Amsterdam
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
MVRDV
PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Winy Maas
Jacob van Rijs
Nathalie de Vries
ORIGINAL DESIGN:
Evert Breman
INTERIOR ARCHITECT:
Atelier Van Lieshout
BUILDING TYPE:
Hotels, cafés, restaurants
Reuse
STATE:
E. Breman (oorspr. ontw. 1915-1917)
A former hotel for emigrants, built in 1917, that last did duty as a prison for young offenders has since been transformed into a hotel for both long-term and short-term cultural tourists. The facades have been retained wholesale and restored. Inside, though, the change is complete. Behind the south elevation a large well has been hewn from the ground floor to the roof beams. This entirely white-rendered principal space with a public café cum restaurant on the ground floor is shot through with a network of stairs, bridges and galleries stitching the individual communal areas together. The hotel rooms, ranging from small and simple to five-star apartments, are each fitted out in accordance with a particular theme and served by 17 different types of bathroom.