Source: the venue’s website, checked on 31/10/2026.
At the tip of Java Island, where the liners of the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland left for the Dutch East Indies from 1910 to 1970, the Amsterdam practice SeARCH built a nine-storey timber hotel around a subtropical garden that anyone walking by can enter.
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On a concrete base, 176 of the 200 rooms arrived by truck as 30 m² solid-timber modules, façade, loggia and bathroom already fitted, and were stacked in three weeks. The timber is FSC or PEFC certified. More than 700 m² of solar panels cover the south and east façades; the hotel runs without air conditioning and is rated BREEAM Excellent.
Nearly every room has a loggia, facing the IJ or the city. On the first floor, three meeting rooms named after cities on Java look out over both the river and the garden; combined, they hold 200 people. The hotel offers groups a 45-minute tour of the building. Eurostar puts Paris about 3 h 20 away; from Centraal station, tram 26 gets there in two stops.
Photo credits : Kleon3 (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) ; Ceescamel (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) ; Ainali (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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