© 2006 Rook & Nagelkerke
EXHIBITION HALL DE ZONNEHOF
G.TH. RIETVELD, 1958-1959
Zonnehof 8, Amersfoort
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Gerrit Rietveld
RENOVATOR:
Bertus Mulder
BUILDING TYPE:
Museums and exhibition buildings
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Gerrit Rietveld
RENOVATOR:
Bertus Mulder
BUILDING TYPE:
Museums and exhibition buildings
PUBLICATIONS:
Bouwkundig Weekblad 1960 p. 323; Deutsche Bauzeitung 1962 p. 23
The facades of this exhibition pavilion include areas of glazed brick in primary colours. Daylight floods in through double-height facade glazing and roof lights underlaid with a grid of metal strips. An upper gallery partially encircles this central skylight. Rietveld's unerring placement of wall surfaces and columns within the basic rectangular space gives a disarming spatial complexity within an immediately surveyable whole.