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EXTENSION TO STEDELIJK MUSEUM AMSTERDAM
BENTHEM CROUWEL, 2004-2012, Van Baerlestraat, Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Uitbreiding) / Extension to Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam  ( Benthem Crouwel )
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ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Benthem Crouwel
Jan Benthem
Mels Crouwel

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Mels Crouwel

DESIGN ENGINEER:
Ove Arup & partners

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Joost Vos

BUILDING TYPE:
Museums and exhibition buildings

After a soap opera lasting years with fast entries and exits by the likes of Venturi and Siza, there was finally consensus on the necessary enlargement of the Stedelijk Museum. It has a new main entrance on the square (Museumplein), thereby rotating the old building's organizational structure 180 degrees. By having a great many of its amenities underground, space could be made at entrance level for a large open foyer area. Floating above this all-glass entrance plaza is a gleaming white reinforced fibre volume whose broad, flat jutting roof shelters much of the outdoor area. Exhibitions spaces and an auditorium occupy this hovering volume, which was promptly nicknamed the 'bath tub' by the locals.