Amstelveen: Citizen M and the Neighbourhood

Published: September 25, 2007, 9:52 am

Tags: news, netherlands, coming soon, dutch design, amsterdam, pod hotel

Last Saturday the reverent Dutch Daily Newspaper NRC Handelsblad published a story about one of the future locations of a Citizen M Pod Hotel in Amstelveen, a suburb of, and connected with, Amsterdam. It gives more insight about the format of the Citizen M Pod Hotel concept. It appears that the neighborhood, a middle to up class residential area, is contending the plans of Citizen M in court, as the building permit has been granted. First there is an office building that has to be demolished to make place for the new hotel. I would say the building is not that disgusting, that it has to be demolished. The building that will be demolished Photo Maurice Boyer They don’t like the design of the new building as it is not consistent with the architecture of the neighborhood. This is off course a very difficult discussion about “taste” Then they don’t like that the hotel will be located in a residential area. They fear too much traffic and too much

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