Winner of the 2022 WLA Awards – Award of Excellence in the Concept – Design category
On 2 June 2006, the last train ran on the Hofplein line from Den Hague to Rotterdam. Since then, Rotterdammers, local residents, tenants of the arches, Rotterdam visitors, have all dreamed of a park on the Hofbogen for years. A park works as a spine, transforming the monumental viaduct from barrier to the backbone, offering a slow landscape designed for walkers rather than the train passengers, a safe living environment for humans and animals, a place to stroll, meet, connect, stay, relax, play, and forage at an elevated landscape. With a length of
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