Much of a Dutchness: the Hotel Inntel Zaandam

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From https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/mar/31/hotel-inntel-zaandam

Much of a Dutchness: the Hotel Inntel Zaandam

The Netherlands was once a byword for architecture that was cool, calm and collected. Not any more. Jonathan Glancey is thrilled by a madcap new hotel

Jonathan Glancey
Wed 31 Mar 2010 16.30 EDT | First published on Wed 31 Mar 2010 16.30 EDT

Can this be real? I'm in Zaandam, near Amsterdam, standing in front of a hotel that looks like a pileup of traditional Dutch houses, all grafted together in bright greens and blues, their pediments, gables, windows and roofs pulling and pushing at my eyes.

My mind is not, however, playing tricks on me. And no, this is not an April Fool. This is the Hotel Inntel Zaandam, a madcap fairytale of a building. In fact, this 12-storey structure is, for a while, hard to take in. It looks like a trick, a conjuring act, as if some maverick architect ran off to join the circus, and learned how to balance one building on top of another, possibly while riding a bike. It's a stupefying, funny, delightful building – a quirky addition to the skyline of Zaandam, capital of the Zaanstad region and a town best known (until now) for its cocoa, biscuits and Europe's first McDonald's.

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[abqtommy]

1. This hotel is pleasantly colorful and appealing. I contrast it in my mind to the typical solid

and historical buildings, stained and bleak with years, that I saw in Prague many years ago during my
two weeks there. I don't say this as criticism either way. I'm saying Vive Le Difference!

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2. Only in the Netherlands

This is what happens when a Dutch fanatic LEGO kid grows up and becomes an architect.