City Hall and Library, The Hague

[Piet Meijs]

When Rijk was partner at Richard Meier & Partners Architects (http://www.richardmeier.com) he was the project architect for the City Hall in the Hague.

Rijk always stayed in touch with the people maintaining, renovating and updating the building to help them with keeping the integrity of the design of the building while adding or changing parts of the building.

Last month we heard that there was a problem with the accessibility of the escape stair behind the Hulshoff store. Someone was able to climb into the staircase from the outside and walk al the way up.

The city came up with a solution where they would close the entire bottom part of the stair.

Luckily we were allowed to propose an alternative.

Here are a few images of what we proposed.