This building has been baptized the Grand Embrace. It is the ‘gateway’ to The Hague, a flowery welcome to symbolize the warm hospitality of the city toward its guests and citizens by presenting visitors and city residents a green building with its arm open wide to receive them all; it gives back to the community, in the form of horizontal and vertical gardens, all the ground that the building covers. It gives back to the city the ground it covers in the form of a green podium to create a pleasant space with a very good integration between public and speculative functions.
