The dual challenges of an €18m renovation of the Delft Water Board’s head office were sound and visuals. The desire for bright, open and welcoming spaces needed light-filled rooms in which flowing curves and expressive angles granted a sense of physical space, while at the same time absorbing sound to minimise crowd noise.
The team looked to deliver a seamless, monolithic aesthetic with high acoustic performance. ELEGANZA, installed on Rapid'Fix throughout entrance hall, corridors, restaurant and meeting spaces, created clean, contemporary and easy to maintain ceilings. Successfully reconciling old and new parts of the building, it opened up light, spacious areas where people could meet and talk – while controlling noise to give them the comfortable conditions to hear and be heard, to think and to work.
The new restaurant “PLÜ Restaurant and Lounge” in the Grand Casino Baden enhances a place located between past and present. Baden-based Atelier West Architekten created a “blossoming” winter garden in a five-month renovation.
Set to become the country’s biggest shopping destination, Mall of the Netherlands will boast almost 300 retail outlets with 7.5 metre-high shopfronts, as well as many restaurants and entertainment venues.
