From forgotten building to city icon: Koelhuis Eindhoven becomes a municipal monument
- Koelhuis Eindhoven
- Dec 17, 2025
- 1 min read
Alderman for Finance, Sports, Heritage, and Regional Cooperation Remco van Dooren, together with the initiators of Koelhuis Eindhoven, Tom Bakkers, CEO of Bakkers | Hommen, and Marjolein Vlaming, co-founder of Concrete Culture, mark the official designation of Koelhuis Eindhoven as a Municipal Monument. Credit: Boudewijn Bollmann
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Only a few years ago, Koelhuis Eindhoven stood on the verge of demolition. In 2017, Eindhovens Dagblad was announcing that the building will be demolished. Permits had already been granted, and the building’s future seemed sealed. Yet recently, this once-forgotten freezer warehouse of Campina has officially become a municipal monument — a recognition of its rare architectural, historical, and cultural value.
For the first time in its history, the building will open up to the public and be transformed into a cultural and tech hub. It will form the beating heart of a new district emerging around it — Koelhuis District Eindhoven — which will include affordable housing, makerspaces, and a broader cultural and technological ecosystem.
Koelhuis after transformation. Credit: Ector Hoogstaad Architecten, render by UrbanEngine.