New sustainable luxury hotel, QO Amsterdam, opens in Dutch capital.
Located in the ?new city district? of the city Amstelkwartier, QO Amsterdam opened its doors this month. The hotel hopes to offer the best of luxury whilst keeping holistic wellness and sustainability at its core. Every aspect of the hotel is designed to reduce the environmental impact it has whilst simultaneously ensuring guests enjoy the best possible experience.
The hotel itself is 21 floors of unique ?living building? and every inch the innovation. The individual moving aluminum panels installed on the façade of the building respond according to the exterior climate and whether or not the guests are in their room, ensuring a consistent room temperature at all times. Floor to ceiling windows in the lobby ensure that 80% of the building?s lighting is natural daylight, whilst the energy storage system holds heated water from the summer months ready for the change in the temperatures. All of this exciting technology significantly reduces the hotel?s power consumption. Read our guide to 48 hours in Amsterdam

The hotel?s concept and design is a joint project run by Mulderblauw architecten, Paul de Ruiter Architects and Arup consulting and engineering. QO?s 288 hotel rooms and 12 suites have been designed by the internationally renowned London based agency Conran and Partners. The interiors of the restaurant, bar and public spaces were designed by award-winning Amsterdam agency TANK.
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