Netherlands Public Broadcasting Head Office

Detail of the wall panels.

Project Details

• Project Name: The Netherlands Public Broadcasting Head Office
• Client: Netherlands Public Broadcasting
• Project Type: Interior design
• Principal Designer: Coen van Ham
• Design Team: COEN! Agency For Design
• Year of commencement of project: 2004
• Year of completion of project: 2007
• Location of site: MediaPark, Hilversum, Neterlands

View of the entrance foyer with its television columns.

The Project

The project required the renovation of three existing blocks of the head office of the National Broadcasting Channel.

The buildings were rather dark and thus the brief focuses on the creation of a bright, colourful and attractive working environment with an ambience appropriate to the client it housed.

View of the multifunctional lobby. The common test picture on television was translated into a print on the transparent window panels.

The design was largely inspired by the identity of the client itself which it pronounced through the elements in it. The three buildings have been integrated to form a singular recognizable environment

View of the white pixel tree with TV screens seen in the hallways of the office.

An interface between applied and autonomous art was developed in the design which has come to characterize the design.

Colourful accents mark the interiors. A strong concept is thus developed independent of the limited budget available to execute it.

Credits

• Text: Courtesy of the architect
• Photographs: Courtesy of the architect
• Compiled and edited by Mitesh Saraf