A few months from now, the Prinsenhof will be a luxury hotel where more foreign languages will be spoken, than any time during its entire history.

Plans have been drawn up and decisions have been made about what portions of the existing building will be kept, and what will be rebuilt. It is really no different than what has happened in previous centuries. However, what we may consider old, precious and authentic today, will be gone, and it may take another couple of centuries before today's buildings will be considered old, precious and authentic again...