Timmerhuis - OMA

The Timmerhuis is a sprawling complex of grey, pixelated glass cubes that appear to float above the street on steel legs. Completed in twenty fifteen by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, the building merges contemporary modular design with an L-shaped municipal office block dating to nineteen fifty-three. This older section, a listed piece of post-war reconstruction architecture, was the original city carpentry house—or Stadstimmerhuis—where officials once directed the rebuilding of a city largely reduced to rubble by bombing during the Second World War.