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HOTEL INNTEL ZAANDAM

WAM ARCHITECTEN (MOLENAAR & VAN WINDEN), 2006-2010, Provincialeweg 102, Zaandam

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Molenaar & Van Winden
WAM architecten

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Wilfried van Winden
Joris Molenaar

BUILDING TYPE:
Hotels, cafés, restaurants


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Station Zaandam
Town Hall Zaanstad

The centre of Zaandam is being radically recast on the back of an urban plan by Sjoerd Soeters. Soeters' plan revivifies the old street pattern, refills a dry canal with water and injects a vibrant ambience into the dispassionate, dull town centre by introducing scaled-up versions of the 'quaint' stylistic traits of Zaan district architecture. The stand-out feature is the Inntel Hotel by WAM Architects along the N203 (Provincialeweg). Sited in part on an existing viaduct, it boasts 160 rooms and a conference centre. The almost square hotel tower is a gigantic 12-storey-high collage cum stack of Zaan house types. Yet the facades are not of wood but of cement-bonded particle boards with a wood finish.