© 2006 Arthur Blonk
TOWN HALL ALMELO
J.J.P. OUD, H.E. OUD, 1962-1973
Stadhuisplein 1, Almelo
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
J.J.P. Oud
Hans Oud
ASSISTING ARCHITECT:
Harm Dethmers
BUILDING TYPE:
Government buildings
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
J.J.P. Oud
Hans Oud
ASSISTING ARCHITECT:
Harm Dethmers
BUILDING TYPE:
Government buildings
PUBLICATIONS:
Bouw 1961 p. 126; H. Oud - J.J.P. Oud, 1984; S.U. Barbieri - J.J.P. Oud, 1987; Bouw 1991-23; M. Kuper - Het stadhuis van Almelo, Almelo 1995; E. Taverne e.a. - J.J.P. Oud Compleet Werk, 2001
This final design of Oud's was realized after his death at a new site. After completion the building was ignored, though many now see it as a classic example of Oud's poetic brand of functionalism. The special functions sit at the two ends of an oblong office block with a double corridor system and aluminium curtain walls; at the north end the council chamber with its triangular composition and in the south the cantilevered civic hall. Colours mark the building parts in a permanent arrangement of blue and yellow glazed brick and white stone.