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Upon its completion in 1992, Rijnstraat 8, the former Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM) building represented both an innovative office typology ? its atriums served as conservatories: the outside brought inside ? and a leading example of sustainability. Today the building, designed by in the 1980s, no longer offers the flexibility and openness required of a contemporary office space.
Courtesy of OMA – Photographs : Delfino Sisto Legnani & Marco Cappelletti, Nick Guttridge.
In collaboration with the original architect, Jan Hoogstad, and in the context of a Public Private Partnership under the name of PoortCentraal (consisting of BAM, ISS and OMA), OMA has developed an integrated concept for the building based on a renewal of its existing architectural qualities.  
Courtesy of OMA – Photographs : Delfino Sisto Legnani & Marco Cappelletti, Nick Guttridge.

The transformation of Rijnstraat 8 is the first large-scale implementation of a new masterplan for the Dutch government?s office accommodation, which proposes major changes in the organizational structure of the government and its real estate portfolio, aiming at greater efficiency in the designing, building, financing, maintenance and operations of governmental office space.
 
Courtesy of OMA – Photographs : Delfino Sisto Legnani & Marco Cappelletti, Nick Guttridge.
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