MAB and Bouwfonds Property Finance win
with ‘De Resident’ the prestigious
FIABCI AWARD
The Hague, 28th May 2003 – During the international
FIABCI Congress the MAB and Bouwfonds Property Finance project ‘de
Resident’ in
The Hague, The Netherlands won the prestigious FIABCI Prix d’Excellence
in the category Special Projects.
The Resident is a development of MAB and Bouwfonds Property Finance.
FIABCI Prix d’Excellence (FIABCI Award) - The best of world real estate The FIABCI Prix d’Excellence is awarded once a year during the FIABCI Congress. The projects may be entered in 7 categories: - leisure, - offices/industrial, - public sector, - residential, - retail and – specialized projects.
The winners in the other categories are:
- Leisure: The Fullerton Square Project (Singapore), - Office/Industrial:
The Telenor Centre (Norway), - Residential: The Trump World Tower (New
York), - Public: Szabo Ervin Library (Budapest) and Retail: Mammut
Center (Budapest).
The FIABCI Prix d'Excellence recognizes the project that best embodies excellence in all the real estate disciplines involved in its creation. It illustrates concretely the FIABCI ideal of 'providing society with the optimal solution to its property needs' and even mature projects are eligible.
In the last few years the following projects won the Prix d’Excellence: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (leisure), WestEnd City Center, Budapest (retail) and Bluewater, Kent (retail).
Awarded by an international panel comprising top real estate professionals and experts, the FIABCI Prix d'Excellence rewards overall merit and not just aesthetics, functionality or size.
‘De Resident’
The multifunctional ‘de Resident’ project covers the area
between Fluwelen Burgwal, Herengracht and Turfmarkt. De Resident, a city
within a city, forms a bridge between the low-rise buildings of the old
city centre and the large-scale office buildings within the vicinity
of The Hague’s Central Station.
‘
De Resident’ provides The Hague with a high quality, vibrant inner-city
environment that will appeal to everyone’s imagination. It is an
area where living, working and shopping will come together in a compact
environment of striking yet varied buildings, atmospheric streets and
attractive squares.
Since its realisation in 2002, ‘de Resident’ consists of
115,000 m² of offices, 315 residential units, 4,500 m² retail
and 800 covered parking spaces divided between three car parks.
10 famous (inter)national architects have worked on ‘De Resident’:
Rob Krier, Sjoerd Soeters, Michael Graves, Cesar Pelli, Adolfo Natalini,
Thon Karelse, Gunnar Daan, Bert Dirrix, Peter Drijver en Richard Koek.
MAB
MAB B.V. is an independent, integrated property company with bases in
the Netherlands, Germany, France, the UK and Belgium. Operating for
its own account and risk, the company engages in the development, management,
purchase and sale of real estate. Since its incorporation in 1970,
MAB has specialised in the development of large-scale land use projects,
predominantly in complex inner-city locations.
Bouwfonds
Bouwfonds Property Finance, which has been serving as de Resident’s
project financier, is an operating company of Bouwfonds Hoevelaken, The
Netherlands. This enterprise is active in three property market sectors:
development, financing and management.
About FIABCI
In its 54 years of existence FIABCI (Fédération Internationale
des Administraters de Biens et Conseils Immobiliers), the International
Real Estate Federation, has built an enviable reputation as the authentic
voice of international real estate. Multi-disciplinary and truly international.
Because of this and its concern with generating business opportunities
for its worldwide membership, its opinions are sought by international
bodies like the UN and regional bodies like the EU, NAFTA and MERCOSUR.