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REDEVELOPMENT OF SQUARE SCHILDERSWIJK
A.J.M. SIZA VIEIRA, 1985-1989, Van der Vennestraat, Den Haag
Pleinbebouwing Schilderswijk / Redevelopment of Square Schilderswijk ( A.J.M. Siza Vieira )
© 2006 Rook & Nagelkerke

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Álvaro Siza Vieira

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Carlos Castanheira

ASSISTING ARCHITECT:
Mecanoo

BUILDING TYPE:
Freestanding houses


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Housing Schilderswijk (Suze Robertsonstraat)

Two hundred housing units originally occupying this triangular site were demolished to make way for underground parking facilities and a local park. The two warden’s residences are combined with a shop and a pedestrian entrance. The houses constitute a respectful tribute to Dutch architecture in what had hitherto been regarded as an impossible marriage of Amsterdam School and Nieuwe Bouwen: brick, all but blankwalled facades, round forms and vertical accentuations in a harmonious interplay with rendering, large areas of glass, terraces and horizontal and rectangular forms. Siza also designed two housing projects in the Schilderswijk quarter, on Suze Robertsonstraat and Doedijnstraat.