citizenM

citizenM is a new Dutch hotel group that opens their first hotel at Schiphol Airport in the second quarter of 2008. This design showed here is the second hotel, built in Amsterdam near the south-axis. The concept of the hotel is to cut out all hidden costs and remove all unnecessary items, in order to provide its guests a luxury feel for a budget price. The hotel exists of 215 rooms of 14 sq.m, all prefabricated produced in citizenM’s own factory and easy to transport. The rooms are stacked on a ground floor with a dynamic lobby / living-room space, creating rooms and F&B functions. Since citizenM believes a great bed and a simple and clean bathroom is all we need during a city or business trip, the design is focused on these items. The building is a black metal box, dominated by the pushed out big glass windows of the rooms. The various depths of the aluminium frames and the angled glass give an individual twist to the rigid façade.