Colorful Hotel Inntel Zaandam

This is the Hotel Inntel Zaandam, a madcap fairytale of a building. In fact, this 12-storey structure. Funny buildings rarely come off. There was a painful period, not so long ago, when architects worldwide practised a style we learned to call post-modernism. This mostly involved the cutting and pasting of historic building details on to office blocks, shops and hotels in a puerile attempt to make big new buildings – blocky by nature – lively and entertaining, as if every town could be improved by looking like Las Vegas. [Source]