AaBé Tilburg

Shopping Mall

Wool mill AaBé, famous since the 1930’s in Tilburg and far beyond, will be converted into a 40.000 m2 shopping mall for furnishing and leisure stores.

The building’s backbone, a 300 meters long internal factory street, has through the years connected new extensions to the ensemble. The street will be reused in its total length as an axis and vista and as a structuring element it will guarantee the cohesion.

Within this scheme, older extensions can be replaced by new ones. In the new situation there will be a balance between historic and contemporary elements.

Data

Client

BPF Bouwinvest Amsterdam

Surface m2

40.000 m2

Period

2007 - present

City

Tilburg, The Netherlands

Disciplines

Architecture

Projectteam

Sander Smit, Barbara Meyer, Sven Spierings, Dirry de Bruin, Johanna Bouma, Pascal Zuiderwijk, Noemie Cageron, Jeroen van Rijsbergen, Maikel Waterdrinker, in collaboration with architectenbureau Fritz (restoration)