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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. NH GRAND HOTEL KRASNAPOLSKY in Amsterdam, Netherlands by Ramón Esteve EstudioAugust 29th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Ramón Esteve Estudio Located in the Dam square of Amsterdam, with views of the Royal Palace, the Krasnapolsky Grand hotel is located between the most emblematic buildings of the city. Its origin dates back to 1865, already then being the central enclave of the high society of that time.  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio
 Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio A Historical Hotel Adolph Wilhelm Krasnapolsky, the first owner of the hotel that bears his name, redefined the luxury hotel experience by establishing the minimum requirements of proper accommodation. In domestic terms, making the Krasnapolsky Grand Hotel become synonymous to luxury without ostentation.  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio A Loss Of Identity After numerous expansions and reforms throughout its 150 years, it currently occupies eight buildings that meet 36.391 m². Each of the succeeding transformations displays the style of its time engendering a distinct environment and an incoherent personality losing completely the unique identity that characterized it. The objective of the intervention has been to give a new identity to the hotel based on the elements of value in its history and its surroundings.  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio The Krasnapolsky Red It has taken as reference, the dark brick facades characteristics that govern in the city of Amsterdam, the costumbrist painting by Vermeer or the “Red Krasnapolsky” which is mentioned in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, as well as the art-deco feel, which reigned in the hotel also described in his novel.  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio Room Typologies We designed two types of rooms and a presidential suite. One, with an island style centered bed, destined for the rooms located in the chamfer, and another type for the rest of the rooms in which there would be a headboard placed in the shape of an open folding screen that reminds us of Amsterdam´s large department store windows. The result of the experience translates into an environment of high quality and comfort with contemporary language. Its colors and proportions transfer to the interior of the hotel and its atmosphere, which is so typical of the city of Amsterdam.  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio Game Of Contrasts Through the combination of neutral colors, predominantly wood, beige limestone, and the black wood combined along with the red Krasnapolsky in its various shades, a set of extreme elegant contrasts is generated. The memory of the building itself is told through historical photographs and the Delphi pottery used in the doors of the rooms, designed by the team of Ramon Esteve Studio.  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio Proposal For Common Spaces The proposal for the lobby, reception, the lounge bar and the attached spaces suggests the usage of current photos by Hendrik Kerstens in whose work reinterprets the Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century in an interesting dialog between past, present and future. The photographs are arranged on suspended ceilings in a form of cupolas decorated and backlit, looking for that one classical element of origin to provide a resource of modern design, giving personality and character to the set of spaces.  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio The Access The access door to the hotel occurs through a glass enclosure with a double mechanized door covered by a black colored canopy. It is further proposed revise the typography of the hotel sign.  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio To Play With The Intangible Matter The lighting is mostly integrated into the architecture accompanied by a set of geometric light fixtures that provide ambient light. The natural light is retrieved whenever possible, by opening apertures or making ones that are more transparent. In the patios, a glass and metal lattice set in the walls and ceilings forms semi – outdoor spaces that are bright, warm and that combine the presence of vegetation to the whole design.  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio  Image Courtesy © Ramón Esteve Estudio
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