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Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Year

1984

Style

Contemporary

Type

museum

Naturalis Biodiversity Center at Darwinweg 2 in Leiden is the national natural history museum and research institute of the Netherlands. The first Leiden complex was completed in 1997 by Fons Verheijen and VVKH Architecten as a campus of…

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  1. 2013-2019

    Renovation

    Neutelings Riedijk reorganized the complex, adding a new museum wing of faceted stone-clad volumes, a tall concrete atrium with interlocking oval, triangular, and hexagonal openings, and 263 fibre-reinforced concrete relief panels by Iris…

    Michiel Riedijk

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