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OFFICE BUILDING MALIETOREN

BENTHEM CROUWEL, 1991-1997, Bezuidenhoutseweg 12, Den Haag

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Benthem Crouwel

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Jan Benthem
Mels Crouwel
André Staalenhoef

BUILDING TYPE:
Office buildings

Straddling a major sunken freeway (Utrechtsebaan), this 72 metre high office building sits on two concrete side walls either side of the tunnel tray. A frame of concrete lattice girders oversails the road at ground level. The basement contains five levels of parking, an entrance level and a double-height level of restaurant and congress rooms. But it is the enormous steel structure in the glazed heads, exposed where these recede at the office levels, that grabs the attention.