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Project • By Bez + Kock Architekten • City Halls
Town Hall and Community Center
The extension of the historic town hall in Holzwickede offered the opportunity to merge the market square in terms of urban development and to give the town hall itself a new wholeness. The listed town hall, built in 1915, was preserved and recognizable as a solitary structure. At the same time, an angular structure was added to it in such a way that a new urban solitaire was created in which the existing building is a self-evident part of the larger whole.
Brigida González
The new town hall develops around a central hall with square skylights, whose sculpturally modeled walls create a charming daylight situation. The hall forms the foyer of the citizens' hall, is the contact point of the citizens' service, a central place of c... More
Project • By NOVA • City Halls
Mariupol City Hall
The project embodies the heart of urban democracy and civic life in Ukrainian Mariupol. Mariupol is a beautiful city on the shores of the Sea of Azov. Its heart was made from metal and cooled in the sea of Azov. The primary industries in the city are metal factories and the seaport. Mariupol is called the Greek capital of Ukraine, its history is closely connected with Greek culture, and the name with the prefix -pol speaks for itself. The word “Demos” comes from Greece, and it means the people. The ancient Greeks invented a system of democracy, the principle of which was the equality of all people. Democracy evenly distributes all responsibilities to the people as a distributed load from the beam to the columns. The ancient Gree... More
Project • By Swap office • City Halls
Parand city hall
Team members: Farnaz Manzour, Mehdi Taheri, Ali Nazari, Sepide Elmi, Yasamin Rahimi
Studying the city, led to a critical position against the city’s typical buildings, and constructions especially in height. Emptying the mass, and converting the mass to space, having both the city and the project as the audience of a performance, and also the independent life of the cultural ring and merging with the plaza at the same points, at last lead to a whole. Galleries work as in-between spaces and project is a great combination of outdoor, semi-open and indoors. Also the project work in two scales with the city. In the scale of the city, on the southern edge, and the scale of the neighborhood on the northern edge. We tried to watch the subje... More
Project • By EGM architects • City Halls
City hall Hengelo
The new Hengelo City Hall took shape in the vibrant heart of Hengelo. This contemporary and sustainable ensemble consists of the new municipal offices and the existing monumental city hall. Standing side by side and connected to each other, the two buildings form a single functional entity, but each has an ambience of its own. The historical monument is open in character, containing atmospheric workspaces and a central hall with striking and restored materials. Beside it is the new volume with its dynamic character, extraordinary spaciousness, copious daylight, sustainable innovations and local craft techniques.
Technique and traditionThe existing city hall is part of the collective memory of local people and vital element of city... More
Project • By BAEB Bureau d’Architectes Emmanuel Bouffioux • City Halls
Etterbeek City Hall
Context and ambition
The new Etterbeek City Hall is located in front of a main road, on Casernes Avenue, in the context of an urban development initiated by the commune on the site called « the Hunting Gardens ». It’s an exceptional opportunity to renew a neighbourhood, a part of the city, and also an opportunity to create a dynamic image for an urban commune.
Site plan
We opted for a clear and open layout for the buildings, favouring lines of communication between the existing neighbourhood and the site’s new development.
The communal house was positioned on the corner between Casernes Avenue and Beckers Street for maximum visibility.
A pedestrian path that crosses the project was proposed in order to link the future park with the... More