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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

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).