[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":108},["ShallowReactive",2],{"about-en-park":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":13,"extension":14,"meta":15,"navigation":16,"path":17,"sections":18,"seo":105,"stem":106,"__hash__":107},"pages\u002Fen\u002Fpark\u002Fabout.md","Our Story — Amadi Park Hotel",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":9},"minimark",[],{"title":10,"searchDepth":11,"depth":11,"links":12},"",2,[],"The Amadi Park Hotel stands in Solid 11, a building drawn to change its purpose, on the Amsterdam-West plot the Wilhelminagasthuis hospital once occupied.","md",{},true,"\u002Fen\u002Fpark\u002Fabout",[19,23,35,40,43,46,72,80,83,92],{"type":20,"image":21,"title":22},"pageHero","\u002Fimg\u002Fpark\u002Fhero-1.jpg","Our Story",{"type":24,"items":25},"uspStrip",[26,29,32],{"icon":27,"label":28},"location","City center",{"icon":30,"label":31},"wifi","Free WiFi",{"icon":33,"label":34},"smoke_free","Non-smoking rooms",{"type":36,"variant":37,"body":38,"emphasis":39},"introSecondary","intro","The Amadi Park Hotel did not start life as a hotel. It started as an argument about buildings: that a good one should outlive whatever it was first built for. Ours holds homes, offices and a hotel at a single address in Amsterdam-West, and it was drawn that way from the beginning.","outlive",{"type":36,"body":41,"emphasis":42},"Two hotels, one idea. Amadi Hotels keeps a pair of four-star houses in Amsterdam — one beside the Vondelpark, one above the water at IJburg — on the belief that a good hotel is a well-made building with people in it who care.","one idea",{"type":36,"body":44,"emphasis":45},"Neither building was built to be a hotel. Both were built for something else first, and both were built well enough to become something else again. That is the short version. The dates below are the long one.","well enough",{"type":47,"eyebrow":22,"heading":48,"milestones":51},"storyTimeline",{"text":49,"emphasis":50},"A building made to change its mind","change",[52,58,65],{"id":53,"date":54,"dateLabel":54,"title":55,"body":56,"emphasis":57},"solids","2006","An idea called Solids","Frank Bijdendijk publishes Solids, arguing that a building should be made well enough, and left free enough, to hold housing, work and tourism in turn — rather than be pulled down the moment its first purpose runs out.","Solids",{"id":59,"date":60,"dateLabel":61,"title":62,"body":63,"emphasis":64},"ground","2009-12-17","17 December 2009","Ground is broken","Work begins on Solid 11, on the stretch of Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat once occupied by a ward of the Wilhelminagasthuis hospital. The design is by Tony Fretton Architects of London, in aluminium, brick, natural stone and glass — materials chosen because they age rather than date.","Wilhelminagasthuis",{"id":66,"date":67,"dateLabel":68,"title":69,"body":70,"emphasis":71},"opening","2011-07-18","18 July 2011","Solid 11 opens","The building is finished and opened by Eberhard van der Laan, then mayor of Amsterdam. A large work by the artist Hans van Bentem sits in the glass front, and residents, businesses and hotel guests begin sharing one entrance.","Hans van Bentem",{"type":73,"image":74,"eyebrowTop":75,"heading":76,"eyebrowBottom":79},"featureBand","\u002Fimg\u002Fpark\u002FfeatureBand-1.jpg","Amadi Park Hotel",{"text":77,"emphasis":78},"Thirty-three rooms behind one glass front","Thirty-three","View our Rooms & Suites",{"type":36,"body":81,"emphasis":82},"Today that building holds thirty-three rooms, each with a bathroom fitted with a water-saving rain and hand shower, a few minutes on foot from the Vondelpark and the museum quarter. The logic the architects worked to — build well, waste little, let the use change — is the same one we run the hotel by.","waste little",{"type":84,"image":85,"primary":86,"ghost":89},"ctaBand","\u002Fimg\u002Fpark\u002FctaBand-1.jpg",{"label":87,"to":88},"Check availability","booking",{"label":90,"to":91},"View our Rooms","rooms",{"type":93,"image":94,"tag":95,"tagIcon":96,"eyebrow":75,"heading":97,"body":100,"primary":101,"ghost":103},"contactSplit","\u002Fimg\u002Fpark\u002FcontactSplit-1.jpg","Fantastic view","directions_boat",{"text":98,"emphasis":99},"We are ready for you","you","Our hospitable and knowledgeable staff are happy to fulfil your specific wishes and answer your questions. At Amadi Park Hotel, we want you to enjoy your stay.",{"label":102,"to":88},"Book now",{"label":104,"to":91},"View Rooms",{"title":5,"description":13},"en\u002Fpark\u002Fabout","z4KVi7AqIw3nhJjwYz22GEo-XG0uqnZ2Em1ra7kOCxQ",1787525168144]