PROJECT
Hilton Rotterdam
LOCATION
Rotterdam
Company
RPW
RPW Design gives Hilton
Rotterdam a new lease of
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Leading hospitality interior design practice RPW Design
has completed the renovation of Hilton Rotterdam,
bringing the interiors of this 50-year-old modernist architectural
icon into the 21st century.
Built in 1963 by one of the foremost architects of the post-war
modernism in the Netherlands, Hugh Maaskant, Hilton Rotterdam
was one of the first upscale hotels to welcome visitors to the city
centre.
Its exterior exemplifies the glamour, sophistication and forwardlooking excitement of the Dutch society of the 50s and 60s,
a time when Rotterdam began to reinvent itself as a modern,
vibrant and multicultural metropolis.
Fifty years on, this Grand Lady of Rotterdam has been given a
new lease of life after a €36 million two-phase refurbishment of
the entire hotel, including its 254 guestrooms and suites, meeting
space and all public areas.
“Our aim was to create a seamless and sophisticated language of
style that subtly reinforces the location and period, although with
a contemporary touch in every detail and material”, explains Jan
Wilson, RPW Design.