Shelter for Culture

Présentation de l'éditeur :

CODA is a cultural mixed-use building in Apeldoorn, the city in which Herman Hertzberger's victory began in the 1970s with the insurance building for Centraal Beheer. Recently the municipality of Apeldoorn wanted to house two museums, the city archives and an extension to the adjacent city library. As usual, Hertzberger did not make a freestanding sculpture but focused his attention on the urban context. He created a new space in which people come together to look at art, go to the theatre, engage in conversation or merely linger. The archives sit atop the main glass volume in a sealed box.