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Furthermore the fa?ade elements are part of the strategy to achieve a maximum ‘arrangement of history

To whole interior was treated monolithic and was detailed in a sober way, also by painting the whole

Through the unity of the new fa?ade elements, the use of the ensemble as a museum and its public func

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After tidying the complete craftscluster as an ensemble, also the separate buildings were remodelled.

To compensate for this lack of ‘grandeur’, the large openings in the exterior walls, which remained a

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In the restoration the goal was not only the achieve an ‘original’ state of the buildings. By removin

The ‘Crafts cluster’ is an integral part of the Gesamtkunstwerk Veenhuizen, which has a national monu

To give the building the spatial quality belonging to a museum the floor was opened over the full wid

After a reformation in the prison system many of the classic buildings remained without a function. T

To achieve this goal almost 40% of the existing building mass had to be demolished. A practical assis

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Around the central prison court, along the axial street system, many related building complexes are p

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Veenhuizen can be typified as a classicistic master plan in which city planning and architecture form

Text description provided by the architects. Veenhuizen was founded at the beginning of the 19th cent