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HOUSING DE LIEFDE

CH. VANDENHOVE, 1988-1993, Da Costakade/Bilderdijkstraat, Amsterdam

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Charles Vandenhove

ARTIST:
Daniel Buren

BUILDING TYPE:
Housing

This residential complex including a small chapel and youth centre occupies the site of the Neo-Gothic church of that name. The houses, ranged about a modest courtyard publicly accessible through two gateways, are in the well-groomed neoclassicist idiom typical of Vandenhove. Though set amidst 19th-century housing the effect is anything but anachronistic.