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ARCHIVE 2023
International Architecture Awards
Architects: Civic Architects
Lead Architect: Gert Kwekkeboom
Design Team: Ingrid van der Heijden, Rick ten Doeschate, Jan Lebbink
Interior Designers: Planemos, Cor Unum Ceramics, Lensvelt
General Contractor: WAM&VanDuren
Client: Municipality of Waalwijk
Photographers: Stijn Bollaert
The Schoenenkwartier Museum is a new and innovative knowledge center for shoe design, shoe production, and shoe fashion in the center of Waalwijk, the Dutch leather and shoe city. It is housed in a listed building complex from the 1930s, by architect Alexander Kropholler, which has been partly renovated, transformed, and expanded. The buildings now house a collection of 12,000 objects, several permanent exhibitions, a knowledge center with a research library, workshop space, an auditorium, a museum café, and laboratories for design and prototyping. Both the planning and design of the building and its interior map out a new inspiring future for the industry, the city, and the community, built on the values of the past.
