Here is the Inntel Hotel Zaandam at Netherlands. It is designed by dutch architects WAM. Can this be real? The hotel looks like a pileup of traditional Dutch houses, like the nature of hotels in town centers. The core of the hotel is made of concrete while the houses are timber and clapboard making many of the room like authentic and individual houses. All the facades are based on traditional Zaanstad houses. The building also doesn’t rise out from nowhere, but from a new area where traditional streets are lined with neo-traditional buildings., making these streets and buildings root the hotel in an urban flowerbed that seems all of a piece.

The hotel, which cost €15m (£13.4m), rises not from some freakishly isolated site, but from a new development of traditional streets lined with neo- traditional buildings. This might not be to everyone's taste, yet these streets and buildings root the hotel in an urban flowerbed that seems all of a piece.