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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

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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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