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HOUSING BLOCK ZUIDERPOLDER (VAN HERK & DE KLEIJN)
VAN HERK & DE KLEIJN, 1986-1990, Pal Maleterweg, Haarlem

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Van Herk & De Kleijn
Arne van Herk
Sabien de Kleijn

BUILDING TYPE:
Housing


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Housing Zuiderpolder

It was Wiek Röling, City Architect to Haarlem, who set aside part of the Zuiderpolder development for experimental housing. Though the most experimental projects, cepezed's freestanding industrialized units and Hertzberger's floating homes, were never built, the results are rewarding all the same. The principal attention-grabber is Koen van Velsen's block of terrace flats whose oblique lines threaten to send it toppling. Other projects offer interesting variations on the traditional terraced housing. Van Herk & De Kleijn's extremely long, gently curving pink rendered block visually terminates the development.