The Eglantier was built in the late 1970s as a center for the neighborhood and looks like a medieval fortified town. The center of the shopping center is formed by four streets that together form a square. And like in old city centers you will find the shops at street level. The structure of the shopping center consists of narrow streets and closed squares. And also with the more than 200 houses above you see the houses stagger and twist in relation to each other. Various heights were also looked up. Below the plan is a sunken parking cellar with 210 places.
This young monument and the way it was built would now be called “New Urbanism”: back to the human dimension and the individual home, in response to the tight post-war neighborhoods and modernism of the 80s and 90s.