1584. Nieuw Heerlen

Dear Victor,

The building for City hall of Heerlen was built from 

1936 to 1942 by local architect Frits Peutz who also 

designed the Glaspaleis or Glass Palace for Schunck.

Regards,
R

1406. Heerlen. Nieuwbouw schunck

Papá,

(...)
no hay nada en mí sino una larga herida,
una oquedal que ya nadie recorre,
presente sin ventanas, pensamiento
que vuelve, se repite, se refleja
y se pierde en su misma transparencia,
(...)
(Octavio Paz, Piedra de Sol)

HMSDQ
R

576. Heerlen, Markt

Dear Wiel,

Heerlen's local architect Frits Peutz built for the Schunck
Fashion House a new department store in 1935 soon
nicknamed Glaspaleis (Glass Palace). This extraordinary
modernist building meant to be respectful to the next door
historic Kerkplein Romanesque church without renouncing
to the necessary simplicity and functionality of a modern
department store. Its elegant glass curtain walls on three
sides of the building are separated from the floor slabs
allowing natural vertical ventilation by means of hatches in
the roof.

Best regards.
R