The Hoxton, Lloyd Amsterdam is a hotel housed in a historic building in the Eastern Docklands of Amsterdam , commissioned by the Royal Holland Lloyd ( Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd ). Founded as a hotel, it initially housed travelling immigrants. Later, it was used as a detention center and also housed artists' studios. It is an official national monument of the Netherlands. It operated as the Lloyd Hotel from 2004 until 2022 and was re-opened after extensive refurbishment as The Hoxton, Lloyd Amsterdam in September 2023.
12-525: The building was established in 1918 in the eclectic style, designed by architect Evert Breman , commissioned by the Royal Holland Lloyd (KHL). The KHL did use the hotel as advertising, to recruit clients for passengers heading to South America. When it was completed on June 1, 1921, it had cost eight times more than originally estimated, contributing to the subsequent bankruptcy of the KHL. From 1921 to 1936
24-488: A butcher, while studying architecture in the evenings. His experience in his father's shop had already given him some basic knowledge of construction. He designed his first buildings in 1886; two homes on the Nassaukade [ nl ] . His first major project, in 1888, was an office building for De Nederlanden van 1845 [ nl ] , an insurance company. In 1887, he married Martha Maria Neumeijer (1857-1938),
36-461: A juvenile detention centre in 1963. By 1989 the detention center building had fallen into neglect. It was then served as studio space for artists from the former Yugoslavia . In 1996, a competition was held to decide what the building would best be used for. The curator Suzanne Oxenaar and art historian Otto Nan presented a design for a hotel and "cultural embassy" of culture in Amsterdam. Their plan
48-551: A location on the Herengracht, had acquired the hotel. It reopened in September 2023 under the name The Hoxton, Lloyd Amsterdam . Since then, it has once again become a meeting place for curious travelers and local residents. The hotel now features 136 rooms, an all-day restaurant called Breman Brasserie , a (cocktail) bar Barbue , and a hybrid meeting and event space, The Apartment . Over 40 Dutch and international designers worked on
60-726: A shipping company, from 1917 to 1922. These included their corporate headquarters, and the Lloyd Hotel . After 1923, he was employed in the real estate industry, as a supervisory Director for the North Holland Mortgage Bank. He died at the age of sixty-seven, and is interred at the New Eastern Cemetery [ nl ] . Although not an innovator, his buildings are highly regarded. [REDACTED] Media related to Evert Breman at Wikimedia Commons Wereldtentoonstelling voor het Hotel- en Reiswezen From Misplaced Pages,
72-607: The World Exhibition for the Hotel and Travel Industry [ nl ] , held at the Museumplein . Most of the site was devoted to the miniature village of "Old Holland", with 16th and 17th-century façades. For his work on the exhibition, he was named a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau . His largest projects were commissioned by Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd [ nl ] ,
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96-464: The building was used as temporary accommodation for immigrants, mostly poor Eastern European Jews . In 1936, the KHL went bankrupt and the building was purchased by the City of Amsterdam. Subsequently, from 1938 it was used as a shelter for Jewish refugees from Germany and during World War II , the building was used as detention centre. After the war it continued to function as an adult prison, and later became
108-420: The daughter of Leendert Johannes Neumeijer Sr. (d.1906), a real estate agent and amateur architect. They had two sons; the musicologist , Willem Frederik Breman [ nl ] , and Leendert Johannes Breman [ nl ] , a diplomat. One of his grandchildren would describe him as a "tyrannical father". By 1895, he had fully established his reputation, and was hired as the principal architect of
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132-646: The interior of Lloyd Hotel. Evert Breman Evert Breman (28 April 1859, Zwolle – 24 October 1926, Amsterdam ) was a Dutch architect in the Renaissance Revival style. He was one of six children born to Willem Fredrik Breman (1829-1875), owner of a carpentry and blacksmithing shop, and his wife, Everarda Elsebé née Meuleman. In 1881, he and his younger brother, Jacobus (known as "Co"), left Zwolle. Co would pursue his artistic career in Brussels, while Evert went to Amsterdam. There, he apparently worked as
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#1732854701389144-575: Was developed in sketches by the architect firm MVRDV and after an extensive restoration, the building has served as a hotel since 2004, placed on the monument list in 2001. The hotel has 117 rooms. After operating for many years as the Lloyd Hotel, it closed its doors in November 2021 for a complete renovation. In October 2022, it was announced that the international hotel chain The Hoxton , which already has
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