Rosewood Amsterdam
Prinsengracht 432 – 436, 1017 KE Amsterdam, Nederland — Amsterdam — Nederland
About
On a broad bend of the Prinsengracht, within Amsterdam’s UNESCO listed canal ring, Rosewood Amsterdam occupies one of the city’s most imposing civic buildings. The structure began life in 1665 as the Aalmoezeniers Orphanage, designed by city architect Daniël Stalpaert, a sober yet dignified expression of Dutch Golden Age urban architecture. In the early nineteenth century the complex was transformed into the Palace of Justice by architect Jan de Greef, who introduced a stately new façade and interiors suited to the rituals of law and power. For nearly two centuries courtrooms here heard the dramas of Dutch public life, including the trial of Cor van Hout, mastermind of the 1983 kidnapping of beer magnate Freddy Heineken. After a meticulous decade long restoration, the building reopened in 2025 as Rosewood Amsterdam. Grand staircases, high windows and quiet courtyards remain, now softened by contemporary design from Studio Piet Boon. The atmosphere carries a pleasing sense of gravity. One sleeps well in a place where justice once deliberated.
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- +31 20 722 3300
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