Koen van der Gaast

Conrad (Koen) van der Gaast (Utrecht, August 10, 1923 -died 7 February 1993) [1]  was a Dutch architect who occupied with station buildings and among other things known by the station of Tilburg.



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[hide] *1 life and work  ==Life and work[ Edit] == Station EindhovenStation TilburgStation AlmeloStation Leiden LammenschansVargas was born in Utrecht and graduated in 1941 and 1945 to 1949 to engineering at the Technical University Delft. In that period there was at TH a conservative school,Marinus Jan Granpré Molière, led by and a more progressive movement, Cornelis van Eesteren and which Jo van den Broek were the ringleaders. Vargas chose the progressive wing and graduated at Van den Broek.
 * 2 Built stations
 * 3 see also
 * 4 external links

In 1950 trad Vargas employed in the architecture Studio of p. j. Koster to Zeist, but in the meantime he also worked as a collaborating architect on the architecture Studio of the Dutch railways (Department buildings), which then operated by Schelling and Van Ravesteyn. There he was, above all, a mediator between the often feuding Schelling and Van Ravesteyn. In 1953 took Vargas leading the architects Office. His first major project was the station of Eindhoven, which was completed in 1956. Station Eindhoven was placed on the list Top 100 Dutch monuments 1940-1958 and in March 2010 registered as a national monument. The stations in Almelo and Tilburg which appeared on the list 90 topmonumenten from the period 1959-1965. ==Built stations[ Edit] == *: Now demolished, rebuilt or replaced
 * Hilversum Sportpark* (1952)
 * Rheden* (1952)
 * Arnhem Velperpoort (1953)
 * De Westereen* (1955)
 * Amsterdam Sloterdijk South* (1956)
 * Eindhoven (1956)
 * Vlaardingen Oost (1956)
 * Three House (1957)
 * Oldenzaal (1957)
 * Hardinxveld-Giessendam (1958)
 * Heemstede-Aerdenhout (1958)
 * Santpoort Noord (1958)
 * Venlo (1958)
 * Leiden Lammenschans (1961)
 * Almelo (1962)
 * Zevenaar (1962)
 * Schiedam Centrum* (1963)
 * Tilburg (1965)
 * Bussum-Zuid (1966)
 * Den Haag Centraal (1975)
 * Schiphol* (1978)
 * Maassluis (1980)
 * Amsterdam RAI* (1981)
 * Goes (1982)
 * Harderwijk (1983)
 * Zaltbommel (1984)
 * Voorburg (1988)