The Bunker Apartment Tower, Eindhoven Architecture, Dutch Residential Project, Images
The Bunker Apartment Tower in Eindhoven
Housing Building in The Netherlands – design by Powerhouse Company
19 Dec 2016
The Bunker Apartment Tower
Architecture: Powerhouse Company
Location: Eindhoven, Holland
The Bunker in Eindhoven will be redeveloped and extended with a high-rise residential tower

The Bunker, the former student centre of Eindhoven University of Technology, will receive a full renovation and will be extended with a high-rise residential tower.

Late 2015, the development combination RED Company & Being Development, along with architectural firm Powerhouse Company, won the competition for the redevelopment of The Bunker. The winning plan has been further developed in the past year in close collaboration with the Technical University and the municipality of Eindhoven. The plan provides for a careful renovation and extension of The Bunker, a striking and monumental brutalist building designed by the renowned architect Hugh Maaskant the late period of post war reconstruction. The Bunker, located on the north side of the Central Station, will be extended with a tower that extrapolates the character of The Bunker. Several architectural elements of the current building have been reused by Powerhouse Company (winner of the Maaskant Prize for Young Architects in 2011) in the design of the tower, which creates an inseparable whole and the treats the original design of Ma...