© 2004 Rook & Nagelkerke
CENTRUM DE BRINK
BOLLES + WILSON, 1995-1998
Markt/Brink, Hengelo
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Bolles+Wilson
PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Axel Kempers
Peter Wilson
ASSISTING ARCHITECT:
Bureau Bouwkunde
BUILDING TYPE:
Public objects
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Bolles+Wilson
PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Axel Kempers
Peter Wilson
ASSISTING ARCHITECT:
Bureau Bouwkunde
BUILDING TYPE:
Public objects
PUBLICATIONS:
Blauwe Kamer 1999-4; Architectural Review 2001-4; Bauwelt 2001-6; Jaarboek 1999-2000; Bolles + Wilson Neue Bauten und Projekte, 1997; A. Germano - Bolles + Wilson opere e progretti, 2004
Here, the area between the market and the station has been extended and consolidated, bringing coherence to what was once a cluttered part of Hengelo. Various new city blocks, including apartment complexes, a department store and a shopping arcade get individual architectural treatment, each locking in its own way into the surrounding built fabric. Together they mark out a new ‘Brink’ (literally, village green) linked to the marketplace (Marktplein). At the hub of the spatial composition is a ‘campanile’ in three parts, a glass cube, a concrete stem and a digital clock. The shopping arcade accompanies the route to the station forecourt (Stationsplein).