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with its luminous reflections, while the western end has a children’s playground, a ‘graffiti gallery’, a skateboard park, a break-dance stage, table football and ping-pong tables, futsal facilities, a basketball court and ‘lovers’ benches’.
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Without changing its morphology, the motorway has become a great threshold joining the town in two ways, uniting its two halves with the river and gathering its citizens under a single ceiling that accommodates all the uses they have asked for. More than construction A8ernA is occupation, offering new content
rather than a new container. As if furnishing an uninviting home, the pieces of the new project are fitted together in an eclectic, fragmentary amalgam that balances the unitary character of the porticoed slab. Project A8ernA, Zaanstad, Netherlands date 2005 authors NL Architects, Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk, Kamiel Klaasse, Mark Linnemann Developer Zaanstad Programme Management Dienst Stad Surface 24,000 m 2 cost 2,700,000 m