Architecture journalist Jaap Huisman wrote an article in Dutch national newspaper Het Parool about Yvie and Maritim hotel:
“XXL, that is the size and ambition of the Maritim Hotel in Noord, which will open its doors in early 2025. It is the third conference hotel in Amsterdam. Guests of this hotel colossus can enjoy a breathtaking auditorium. However, the complex could do with some lightness.
The figures are staggering: 579 hotel rooms, an auditorium for 2,500 people, a parking garage for 600 cars and a mega restaurant, called Loef, with 400 covers. The Maritim Hotel on Overhoeks in Noord is big, bigger, biggest.
However, this hotel, which wants to focus on the conference market, is not the largest in the city – that is Nhow at the RAI. And the tower is not the highest in Amsterdam with its 114 meters either, that is the Rembrandttoren at the Amstel station. The auditorium of the Maritim Hotel is the largest conference hall in a hotel in the city.
The panorama is also dizzying. From the 34th floor, where bar Noord will be located, Almere can be seen on the eastern horizon and the dunes by the North Sea on the western. It will attract curious people to the towers like a magnet.
Duo towers
Maritim forms a duo with the expressive residential tower Yvie next to it, whose horizontally draped terraces escape the narrowness of most balconies. They form an extension of the rooms with sizes between forty and two hundred square meters. A clever layout makes even a small apartment feel spacious. The spacious roof garden of the low-rise building that connects the two towers is accessible to both hotel guests and residents. A spa with a swimming pool is also located on this garden designed by the Deltavormgroep.
The complex was designed by Team V Architecture, which earlier this year played itself into the spotlight with Mediavaert, the beating heart of publishing group DPG Media. And even earlier, the firm designed the Haut apartment complex in the Amstelkwartier, which, like Mediavaert, stands out because of its use of timber.”
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