block 37: zoning issues

But the most interesting thing is that at that moment, 1990, the city developed so many new office towers that this square became the first square in Holland with a skyline. The municipality did not know that. We thought that this was a very beautiful square, without facades and with a beautiful skyline. When you are in the middle of the square, you can really see all the towers in town. So we made a collage, based on God sending a beautiful empty square to this skylined city. We made a proposal in which the square was more or less a very simple surface of steel. And nothing happened.

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