ABSTRACT
De Beeklaan is located in The Hague. Designed by SCALA Architects and developed by Bouwfonds Property Development (BPD), it was completed in 2007. De Beeklaan is named for the street it faces in the Regentessekwartier neighborhood, one identified as needing a radical intervention. A competition for redesigning the neighborhood was held and won by SCALA architects with developer Roey that had resulted in reconstruction of three streets of new housing next to the proposed site in 1999. The Beeklaan site, however, was awarded by the city to another developer, BPD, that was planning to work with a different architect. The De Beeklaan project was conceived just prior to the recession and built as the recession developed. The tallest block, Block I, located at the corner of two main streets, Beeklaan and Loosduinseweg, has a tower that indicates the entrance to the neighborhood. De Beeklaan was designed as part of a neighborhood rehabilitation effort in which the local residents were involved.
