Caruso St John . photos: © Filip Dujardin
This commission arose from an ideas competition for the conversion of the Veemgebouw, a monumental warehouse building at the former Philips industrial site in Eindhoven. The historic building was constructed in 1943, and is the most impressive and prominent of a series of large industrial buildings on the Strijp S site at the heart of the complex. The site is being redeveloped as a new piece of the city by the Dutch housing developer Trudo, to a masterplan by Jo Coenen and West 8. The new uses on the site will include apartments, offices, and retail spaces, within existing historic buildings and new buildings.
The conversion of the Veemgebouw is intended to change this industrial building, originally designed for storage, into a city building whose new character reflects its more metropolitan situation. The new building will have a mix of uses: At ground level, facing the new landscaped promenade, will be a fresh food market across the whole width of the deep floor with its distinctive closely spaced columns and their flared capital. The middle nine floors will be parking for six hundred cars, for the residents of the whole site. The top floors of new construction will contain forty apartments, office space, and a rooftop restaurant. The housing is arranged around a landscaped courtyard. The external façades of curving brickwork form a new more dramatic top to the building, in a language that refers to the 1930s styling of the existing listed building.
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Location
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Date
2007–2022
Client
Trudo
Construction cost
€55m, including taxes
Area
30,000 m²
Caruso St John Architects
Adam Caruso, Peter St John
Project architects
Florian Zierer (Competition: 2007–2008), Bernd Schmutz, Steffi Wedde (Design phase: 2011–2014), Will Pirkis (Construction: 2020–2022)
Project team
Sam Casswell, James Decent, Emily Keyte, David Leech, Adam Gielniak, Steffi Wedde
Executive architect
Piet Vrencken, V/Architecten
Structural engineer
Tielemans Bouwconstructies BV
Services consultant
LTC & C Installatiemanagement BV, Visietech B.V.
Cost consultant
DNC and IGG Bouweconomie BV
Project manager
Trudo Holding BV
Main contractor
Stam + de Koning
Photography
Filip Dujardin
