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STAFF CANTEEN TU TWENTE
J. VAN STIGT, 1963-1965, Dienstweg, Enschede
Personeelskantine TU Twente / Staff Canteen TU Twente ( J. van Stigt )
© 2006 Arthur Blonk

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Joop van Stigt

BUILDING TYPE:
Hotels, cafés, restaurants


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Technical University Campus

Laminated timer beams interlink in cruciform structures which combine to form the roof plane of this canteen for the Technical University. Facades remain open where possible. Timber posts support not the extremities of the beams but their centre. Though the pattern of beams overhead creates a variety of subspaces in its subdivision of the canteen's open zone this play of squares is nevertheless more enthralling on paper than it is in reality.