The vast town hall, with its four distinctive towers built from inte-grally colored concrete, rises up from the wharf.
The vast town hall, with its four distinctive towers built from inte-grally colored concrete, rises up from the wharf.
12 PagesCOLORED CONCRETE WORKS ® Case Study Project: Middelburg T own Hall, Netherlands www.colored-concrete-works.comA town hall forming a link between two worlds.An architectural concept that links the city’s history with the modern age. The new town hall in Middelburg, the capital of the Dutch province of Zeeland and home to nearly 48,000 people, was designed by the German-Dutch architectural firm RAU and built between 2002 and 2004. But a slew of extraordinary planning had to be overcome before the building could be opened because a canal, a railroad line with a station, a highway, and in the middle of all of this, a barely developed rail yard divided Middleburg and cut off the historic city center from the south. There really could be only one goal: to transform this zone into a vibrant
