[9] Besides the large market hall, the complex houses 228 apartments, 4,600 m2 retail space, 1,600 m2 horeca and an underground 4-story parking garage with a capacity of over 1200 cars.

The facade was designed and installed by Octatube[11] The inside of the building is adorned with an 11.000 m2 artwork by Arno Coenen and Iris Roskam,[12] named Hoorn des Overvloeds (Horn of Plenty).

[13] The artwork shows strongly enlarged fruits, vegetables, seeds, fish, flowers and insects.

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[21] The Markthal is built on top of a fourteenth-century buried village in the Polder of Westnieuwland.