Four Elements Hotel
Four Elements is a four-star eco hotel in IJburg, Amsterdam, by IJmeer lake and 13 minutes by tram from the city centre. The building cools itself with gravity, sun and wind. In summer 2020 Hotel Breeze relaunched as Four Elements, and we designed and built its new site. It is still live, with rooms, the restaurant, the Sky Bar and events.
- Client
- Four Elements Hotel · Amsterdam
- Design
- Pixney
- Our role
- Design and development
- Years
- 2020 —
- Stack
- MODX, ContentBlocks, Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js
- Scope
- Rooms, restaurant, Sky Bar, events, in English and Dutch
The brief
Hotel Breeze was relaunching as Four Elements in summer 2020 and needed a new site for the new name.
We designed and built it between February and June 2020, live by August.
What we built
Pages from blocks
Twenty content blocks in MODX ContentBlocks — header image or video, sliders, quotes, icon rows, room galleries, menus, a news feed — so the hotel builds its own pages.
Rooms
An accommodation overview and a page per room type with its own photo gallery, linked straight to booking.
Restaurant and Sky Bar
Pages for the restaurant and the rooftop bar with a menu section, a booking frame in the restaurant header and menus as PDFs, updated from 2020 to 2024.
Film in the header
Header blocks for a muted, looping video, from a file or YouTube, behind the title on the home page.
Two languages
English and Dutch as separate MODX contexts, with a language dropdown in the header.
News and events
Posts and a news feed for events, offers and hotel news, plus a meetings and events page.
In their words
“That looks very good. It breathes freshness and professionalism. Great result achieved in such a short period of time. Well done!”
