Tall & Urban News

In 2015, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture’s (OMA) design for a hotel, led by partner Reinier de Graaf, in Amsterdam received approval from local authorities, with the project topping out structurally in early 2019. The project has now been architecturally topped out and photographed. Located in the city’s rapidly developing Zuidas business district, it will be the main hotel for Amsterdam’s primary convention and exhibition center.

“The three shifted triangular volumes of the new nhow Amsterdam RAI Hotel are a unique addition to Amsterdam’s skyline,” OMA said.

“The shape of the 91-meter-building draws from the triangular advertising column on the Europaplein, which was once so prominent on the site, but now has been overtaken by the many office buildings that have been erected in its vicinity.”

The project will contain a total of 650 rooms as well as a restaurant, bar, and live television studio. The hotel’s lobby is spread over two stories, with retail outlets on the ground floor and a hotel lounge and bar above. Nineteen of the building’s 24 stories are occupied by the hotel, with the public and semi-public facilities on the top floors. The uppermost levels, named “on air,” include meeting and conference rooms, lounges, and the television studio.

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