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OFFICE BUILDING HAANS
J.M.J. COENEN, 1989-1991, Mina Krusemanweg 1, Tilburg
Kantoorgebouw Haans / Office Building Haans ( J.M.J. Coenen )
© 2004 Rook & Nagelkerke

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Jo Coenen
Jo Coenen & Co.

BUILDING TYPE:
Office buildings

This complex comprises an office cum showroom sitting in a lake and a land-locked reception area, the two linked by a footbridge. Up on the roof of the cube-shaped main block are the services, concealed from view by a second canopy-like roof on steel posts. The whole is an intriguing marriage of Mies van der Rohe’s transparent glass architecture and Le Corbusier’s sculptural concrete forms. Prismatic reflectors set between the double glazing of the facades keep out the sun but let in the light.