The Beethovenstraat was subsequently created as a connecting road, mainly to the homes. The Minervalaan was therefore supposed to have become a shopping boulevard with a public Academy on the spot where the Hilton Hotel is now located. This Stationsstraat (Minervalaan) would become the heart of the area, with its monumental traffic road and the pedestrian boulevard with shopping galleries. An important point, featuring many traffic routes, seen as the start of the city and a link to the centre.

Berlage positioned the requested Academy of Visual Arts in the western part of the plan, along the axis of Stationsstraat, at the intersection with the main traffic road.

This Plan is still of international value and is globally seen as one of the most important urban plans from the first half of the 20th century.īerlage positioned the public and larger buildings at central points in his plan, which proved to be an important contribution to Plan Zuid’s monumental character.

He tried to establish good links to the existing city in the plan, whilst the urban concept of the expansion itself was realised in accordance with aesthetic principles as much as possible: attention for a hierarchical street pattern and monumental accents. Plan Zuid is an important and well-preserved example of the way in which the housing problems in the large cities were tackled from the start of the 20th century, with urban plans for a large number of houses.

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