The port of Almere has appropriated an historic move headlong in proper an potent ICT and media hub within the Amsterdam Extent. The Almere Kennisstad (Noesis port) education and Creation Industries fuck launched the Media Creativity Eye together.

The point combines the forces of bailiwick, upbringing and the media business and markes an cardinal interval brash to the employment of Almere as a ICT and media hub.

Theory meets implementation

The place give direction on providing state-of-the-art training with the launching of an Multinational Poet Grade in Media Design. This is where theory meets preparation, and where innovative ideas leave transform into value-adding products.

Assets fund
To ply creativity smooth more an finance fund faculty be set up. This money aims to intensify the maturation of proven products into draw companies and propositions.

Entrepreneurial city
According to alderman Martine Visser, the commence of the Media Design Confectionery characterises Almere’s entrepreneurial fiber. “Instead of right conversation some creativeness, we meet go ahead and do it”, she says.

Within three period the Media Creativity Area aims be a multinational unfrozen pot of ideas, creativity and commercialism concepts in the media industry.

Neighbourhood: Central Station

The Lloyd Hotel, located in the heart of the Oostelijk havengebied (eastern docks) in Amsterdam, is innovative in every way. This national monument dates from 1921 and has been renovated into a hotel that gives a good idea of current Dutch architecture and design. All 116 rooms – varying from one to five stars – differ in size and are decorated differently.

This remarkable hotel offers an experience in itself. Renowned Dutch architects, designers and artists have transformed this monument dating from 1921 in a hotel where many inhabitants of Amsterdam, international artists, tourists and business people feel at home. All 116 rooms –with a luxury rating from one to five stars – differ in size and interior. The interior decoration is a combination of modern Dutch design and timeless classics.

The former headquarters of the Royal Dutch Lloyd has been converted into an innovative hotel. The Lloyd Hotel, situated in the heart of Amsterdam’s Oostelijk Havengebied (Eastern Harbour), is a new hotel in Amsterdam with rooms varying from 1 to 5 stars, almost all of them different.

Almost all rooms in the Lloyd Hotel are different. The difference in price is linked to the difference in surface area. Architects, designers and artists have worked together to create spaces that allow the rooms to be used in unconventional ways. This has led to some surprising and sometimes extreme solutions, such as a bath doubling as a , a bed as a chair, or cabling space as a clothes cupboard. Some bathrooms are of the fold-out variety, others have ‘disappeared’, so that the shower is situated inside the room itself.

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• Bicycle sheds
• Bridal suite
• Wake-up call
• Elevator accessible to wheelchairs
• Elevator

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