Cultural Historical Centre in Vreden

Along the edge of the town moat the new building seems, literally, to be standing in water. The clinker brick facing wall, which continues beneath the water, unites old and new to form a single entity.
Located close to the border between Germany and the Netherlands, the flat Westmünsterland region is veined with numerous streams and rivers. One of them is the River Berkel; alongside the river's floodplain, a new cultural history centre has recently been built in the medieval core of the little town of Vreden. This elongated building continues the small-scale of the existing...
Along the edge of the town moat the new building seems, literally, to be standing in water. The clinker brick facing wall, which continues beneath the water, unites old and new to form a single entity.