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HOTELS / 25 DEC 2015 / BY MATTHEW HURST
Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
For travellers, airport hotels have long been about as inspiring as
airline food. However, with the opening of the Hilton Amsterdam
Airport Schiphol, both the airport and the hotel
(http://www.wallpaper.com/travel/categories/hotels) group have set
out to up the ante.
Iconic was the brief, and with its reptile-like white and grey panelled
façade, diamond shaped windows and irregular orientation, Dutch
architects Mecanoo have succeeded in creating a structure that’s
instantly recognisable to all passing by. Inside, a soaring 42 meter
internal atrium forms the centrepiece of the twelve level, 433 room
property, leading upwards to clear sky views by day, which slowly fade
to an almost nightclub-esque illumination at night.
London-based interior design studio The Gallery HBA have given the
site a ‘Dutch touch’ at every turn, with patterns and imagery inspired
by local lace, Delftware and cartography applied to tiles, carpets, wall
panels and the vivid, Escher-inspired handlaid timber flooring of the
hotel’s Diamond Suite.
IN FO R MA TIO N
Website
(http://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/netherlands/hilton-
amsterdam-airport-
schiphol-
AMSAPHI/index.html)
A D D R ES S
Schiphol Airport
Amsterdam
TEL EPH O N E
31.20 710 4000
PH O TO G R A PH Y
Will Pryce
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Working with lighting company Frandsen Project, lead designer
Constantina Tsoutsikou customised an array of the hotel’s fixtures,
including desk lamps, copper pendants, a rope-chandelier installation
and corridor and in-room wallsconces, the latter of which is being
brought to market next year. Indeed, the airport hotel ante has been
upped.
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