Model of the Glass Palace, Heerlen, Netherlands - reconstruction by Jo Coenen & Wiel Arets
The Glass Palace / Glaspaleis is one of the most important examples of Dutch Modernism, and was designed and built by Fritz Peutz in 1935 as a department store. There was originally a supermarket in the basement, a grand entrance on the ground floor, fashion shops on several floors, a restaurant on the fifth floor, and the client’s penthouse on the top floor, overlooking this mining city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The Heerlen based architect proved to be a true innovator: he ‘packed’ his ‘stacked market’ in glass, with a large transparent glass-coated façade in fine metal profiles. The construction, visible from the outside, consists of beamless floors resting on white mushroom columns. The open and transparent Glaspaleis became the architectural eye-catcher of Heerlen
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