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Serving as an ‘incubator’, Oxfordlaan 70 provides office spaces and laboratory facilities to startups in the domain of the Life Sciences. The street address of this building used to be Universiteitssingel 70, but it was changed because the entrance of this part of the building is actually located on Oxfordlaan. It is part of the Medizinische Kleinstadt, according to the master plan of the Ungers/Von Brandt Firm, and it was developed by Aan de Maas Architects. This plan was meant to ensure the mutual cohesion of the projected new buildings in the area, also in relation to their immediate environment. The buildings constitute a kind of ‘city wall’ in a north-south direction, as if protecting the medical district behind it. This fortress-like character is also reflected in the shapes and sizes of the buildings. The building on Oxfordlaan 70/Universiteitssingel 60 was added to the Randwijck campus as third section of the city wall in 2005. Like the other buildings on Universiteitssingel, it involves an elongated, narrow building, consisting of five stories and rendered in white. In contrast to the other buildings, which have fronts made of concrete or concrete elements, this building has a stucco façade. The entrance of Universiteitssingel 70 (today Oxfordlaan 70) is located at the building’s head on Oxfordlaan. Because its front is slightly set back on the two lower stories while its slanting glass surface goes on to the roof structure, the ‘incubator’ has a look and identity of its own.
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