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TOWN HALL ROTTERDAM
H.J. EVERS, 1912-1920, Coolsingel 40, Rotterdam
Stadhuis Rotterdam / Town Hall Rotterdam ( H.J. Evers )
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The City Hall and the post office were built when the waters of Coolsingel were exchanged for a road and 't Zand (the red light district) was demolished. In 1913 a limited entry competition among seven architects to design a city hall was won by the neo-Renaissance submission by Henri Evers, who had in fact organized the competition. The building comprises four wings four storeys high about a public court; the overall shape is a rectangle of 86 x 106 metres. Presiding over the City Hall is a 71 metre high tower in reinforced concrete above the main lobby. The building's exterior is dominated by the sandstone of the elevations and the tall pyramidal slate roofs.