Pillows Grand Boutique Hotel Maurits at the Park
Amsterdam
2017-2023
Pillows Grand Boutique Hotel Maurits at the Park
Amsterdam
2017-2023
Transformation of former laboratory building in the Oosterpark
Address: Mauritskade 61, Amsterdam
Gross floor area: 9.050 m² including parking garage
Client and owner: Amerborgh International
User: Pillows Hotel / IHMG
Architecture: Office Winhov
Team: Uri Gilad, Rick Bruggink, Tuğba Gündoğdu, Leon Kentrop, Antonio Cannavacciuolo,
Rogier van den Brink, Inez Tan, Anna Janssen, Carlo van Steen, Maria Trombetta, Charlotte Bonie Toro
Interior architecture: Studio Linse
Landscape architecture: Sant & Co
Photographer: Stefan Müller
Awards: Winner Bronze Erich Mendelsohn Award and winner NRP Gulden Feniks
Pillows Grand Boutique Hotel Maurits at the Park
Amsterdam
2017-2023

As part of the city’s extending and transforming of Oosterpark, the former university dissection laboratory was given a new purpose as a 5-star hotel that’s also welcoming for locals. The overall complexity of this project – combining adaptive re-use, a new wing extension, and strengthening the relationship with the surrounding park – is a reflection of Office Winhov’s overall approach and ambitions. It was about bringing the old and new together with a balanced new program, a careful integration of the extension, and refined use of materials. The result is a design transformation that respects the building’s pre-existing strengths while introducing harmonious new elements. Designed by architect Jan Bernard Springer and built in 1908, the building’s massive brick exterior has a formal facade on the streetside and three wings facing the park. Throughout the design process, the park remained the main muse: it now literally goes all the way to the building. Each wing has its own relationship to the park – such as the brasserie located in the new wing, or the bird’s eye view offered from the museum-hall-turned-restaurant. In many ways, this project was about turning a closed monumental building into an accessible building in the park. Highlights of the existing interior are the walls of glazed brick in the corridors and the large space and truss constructions of the former museum hall. These elements have remained visible and still determine much of the overall atmosphere.

Pillows Grand Boutique Hotel Maurits at the Park
Amsterdam
2017-2023
Façade fragment: the new extension and the restored building
Restaurant VanOost in the former museum hall
The end gables on the park side
Aerial view over the Oosterpark, photo Siebe Swart
Model of the original building and extension
View from the park towards the building and the new extension
The monumental corridor
View from Mauritskade towards the laboratorium building around 1915
Entrance on the Mauritskade, photo Pillows Hotel
Enfilade towards the park
VanOost at the park
The lounge in the restored lecture hall, photo Karin Borghouts
Cross section
Basement Ground floor Floor
Basement
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Transformation of the former museum hall into a restaurant
Corridor of the new extension along the historical facade
Room in the new extension, photo Pillows Hotel
Brasserie Spring along the park
The new extension, side view
Construction of the basement and the new extension on the park side, photo Bas Stoffels Construction of the new extension, photo C&R Hospitality Services (February 2021)
Construction of the basement and the new extension on the park side, photo Bas Stoffels
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2017–2023 The building process
Park entrance between the new extension and the original building
Brickwork bond with relief
Façade of the new extension