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CHILD DAY CARE CENTRE BORGHEEM, HOUSING

SJ. SOETERS, 1980-1983, Borgerstraat 108/Nicolaas Beetstraat 82, Amsterdam

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Sjoerd Soeters

BUILDING TYPE:
Buildings for education
Sociocultural buildings

This complex comprises a free-standing 'baby-temple' and a main block with a two-level day nursery and a further three levels of housing. lts architecture is governed by an intricate, multi-coloured play of material and space. Dwellings are reached from a central corridor on the third storey. Bedrooms and dining rooms alternate per dwelling between second and fourth floors, a solution similar to that of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation.