The Bunker Tower, Eindhoven Apartments, Dutch Residential Development, Architecture Images
The Bunker Tower in Eindhoven
Hugh Maaskant Building in The Netherlands – Dutch Housing design by Powerhouse Company Architects
20 Jan 2023
Design: Powerhouse Company
Location: Eindhoven, North Brabant, The Netherlands

Photos: Sebastian van Damme
The Bunker Tower, Holland
Reviving the Bunker

Hugh Maaskant’s 1970s classic was the original mensa and fraternity building of TU Eindhoven. The students nicknamed it the Bunker given to its brutalist structure. In recent years, however, it had fallen into disrepair, and only narrowly escaped demolition.

Together with developers RED Company and Being Development, we won the 2016 competition set by the University of Eindhoven to decide the Bunker?s future. By adding a residential tower, we generate the extra value needed to fund the painstaking restoration of the original building.
Adding the tower also allowed underground parking, enabling the transformation of the existing parking lot into a public park surrounding the complex as designed by DELVA Landscape Architecture & Urbanism. With its green surroundings and unique residential opportunities, the Bunker brings a new impetus to the whole area and Eindhoven as a whole, as it joins several new architectural landmarks in the city.

A bold solution

Our design daringly unites the new residential tower with the original structure, by adopting the language and materialit...