Utrecht – When you think of Hoog Catharijne, you see crowds of people pushing each other in dark shopping passages. At least that’s how it used to be: busy, confusing and stuffy. But the shopping center was also unprecedentedly innovative and architecturally interesting. A place with a dizzying number of shops, the city’s first McDonald’s and terraces with palm trees. “The shopping heart of the Netherlands”, as the slogan once said, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary on Sunday. A look back.
50 years of Hoog Catharijne: pearl of the city or thorn in the side?
