Municipal Office Leyweg by Rudy Uytenhaak

Posted by Dave on March 3rd, 2012

Architecture | Comments (10)

10 Responses to “Municipal Office Leyweg by Rudy Uytenhaak”

1. Andre M J on 04 Mar 2012 at 5:55 am #

   Buildings as art! It needs to be done more often. Example the Gierken in London, all this building needs is a good name to anchor it in our brain

2. Reinier on 04 Mar 2012 at 6:26 am #

   The pattern of the windows is great but the overall shape of the building is not. A more modest form would have been better.

3. Patrovio Baligno on 04 Mar 2012 at 2:13 pm #

   Instantly iconic.

4. Isaac on 04 Mar 2012 at 3:48 pm #

   ‘all this building needs is a good name’

   The Giant Dorito.

5. Thomas on 04 Mar 2012 at 9:04 pm #

   Stunning!!!!
   Windows definitely sourced from Ericsons building on Georgia street in Vancouver.

6. Onelab on 05 Mar 2012 at 2:00 am #

   I live near this building and in real life it is totally awful. It absolutely dominates the surrounding neigbourhoods and absolutely doesn’t go well with the that same neigbourhoods.
   It looks acceptable from the views as seen in the photographs but the backside for instance ( where the balconies are) is a mess and looks like a design residu for which they didn’t have a solutions.
   There was a design competition for this location which resulted in 5 designs and sure enough: the worst solution was picked out!
   ( I was fortunate enough to also see the other designs)
   The local government picked this “landmark” to compete with other region of the city of Den Haag to have a tall building.
   Other designs were more low-key and more integrated into the surrounding neighbourhood thus better suited for this location with a lot of social housing from the 50′s and 60′s no higher than 5 levels.
   This is just a tall building on a rather bland square standing out like a sore thumb!
   p.s. This building was allready finished 1,5 years ago so I had a lot of time to contemplate on this!

7. john odendal on 05 Mar 2012 at 2:07 am #

   beautiful city marker!…inviting public condition at groundplane. pity about ‘pimple’ projecting on top…needs to blend or have stronger personality.

8. JP on 06 Mar 2012 at 12:59 pm #

   This is a beautiful building, and a magnificent addition to any city.

   @Reinier- If all buildings had “modest forms”, imagine how boring architecture and cities would be. It is buildings like this that define cities and even countries.

9. Jaroslaw on 07 Mar 2012 at 7:23 am #

   ‘The Giant Dorito’ rules! Also, It is quite scary shape.

10. Randy Wilson on 08 Mar 2012 at 4:49 am #

    A grand leap of faith that is rare in architecture. Personally, I would love to see more owners being bold with expressing their brand.