In 2013, Almere started to reasses their cultural landscape by starting the 'Acre of Culture' project, an assembly of all cultural institutions under one roof - within the Kunstlinie, the iconic building by SANAA .
This also included a space for contemporary art that was formally based in De Paviljoens. Within the almost urban scale building plan, the southwestern corner was found to position this institution. With a set of acupunctural interventions, a flexible exhibition space was created. To avoid losing the original architectural concept of rooms as designed by SANAA, the original steel strip columns have been left exposed, as a bare reminder of the original layout. This again makes an spatial incident which is thankfully used by the artists in the space.
The project also included a makeover of the lobby to a cultural living room the city and a remake of the Architecture Studio - a showcase of Almere's architectural legacy as a new town.