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TOWN-CENTRE ARCADE ALMERE-STAD

K. RIJNBOUTT (LRR), 1979-1981, Zadelmakerstraat/Blekerstraat, Almere-Stad

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Kees Rijnboutt

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
LRR
Bakker & Verhoeff

ASSISTING ARCHITECT:
A. van Dolder
Eric Meisner

BUILDING TYPE:
Shops

This complex constitutes as initial large-scale urban element the springboard for the eventual centre of a new town of 90,000 inhabitants. It consists of a passage with a curved, glazed roof off which are ground floor shops and a further two levels of offices. This passage is closed at the front by a rectangular block temporarily housing the town council. On the east side is a semi-circular multi-storey car park.