About the project
With 650 rooms, the Nhow RAI Hotel is the largest hotel in the Benelux, the latest in a series of themed hotels from the chain, and the second designed by OMA.
The hotel consists of three stacked triangular volumes, with the middle section rotated 90 degrees. The large overhangs which emerge as a result, in addition to providing a series of sheltered roof terraces, create the impression of a building defying gravity.
Aluminum mullions, alternately spaced depending on the aspect, ridge the facade. Each mullion is triangular in profile, with either of its sides matt or polished, giving the facades their lenticular quality – shimmering as it shifts on the horizon.
The form, initially derived from the triangular constraints of the site, also pays tribute to “Het Signaal”, the once prominent advertising totem on the Europaplein. Overtaken by a multitude of office towers as part of the Zuidas development, Het Signaal has in recent times ceded its command of the surroundings. As its heir the hotel extends the domain of the RAI once again, broadening its effective horizon: a beacon by which the people from Amsterdam, and visitors to the city, can orient themselves.
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