DE PASSAGE DEN HAAG ROOF ARCHITECTURE. Editorial Image

The Passage in The Hague is the oldest existing shopping center in the Netherlands. Petrus Josephus de Sonnaville, also one of the founders of the Kurhaus in Scheveningen. The original passage from 1885 runs from the Spuistraat to the Buitenhof. The oldest part the Spuistraat and Buitenhof arm was built after a design by the architects Herman Wesstra jr. And J.C. van Wijk, which was greatly simplified by the Belgian architect Henri Rieck neo-Renaissance style. In 1929 the third arm to the Hofweg was added to the walking area. The design in expressionist style was from Jos. Duijnstee.