Schoolgebouw, Parkweg 128

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Description

Introduction SCHOOL BUILDING WITH BOUNDARY WALL, situated parallel to the south side of the Parkweg and oriented on the main axis of the opposite Grunobuurt (the Westinghousestraat), built in 1927 as a six- and seven-class public primary school with gymnasium hall commissioned by the municipality according to a design by Municipal Works (S.J. Bouma) in the style of the Amsterdam School. The building is separated on both sides by narrow corridors from the adjoining, later buildings. The gymnasium hall has been modernized and is now in use as a canteen. The building is still in use as a school. Description The two-storey building is erected on an elongated, rectangular floor plan and is completely symmetrical in layout: a centrally located monumental entrance section with a semi-circular gymnasium hall built out towards the street side and two long wings in which the classrooms are housed. The forecourt is separated from the street by a wall approximately 0.75 metre high made of yellow brick with curved sections towards the central entrance; in front of the gymnasium hall a circular pavement of clinker bricks. The facades are constructed from yellow brick (Flemish bond); the wall surfaces of the entrance section are laid in header bond. The central section containing the two staircases on either side of the semi-circular projection is composed of cubic volumes offset relative to each other with flat roofs, brick pilasters and on the corners two vertical window strips with coloured leaded glass. The semi-circular projection has a large glass façade with fine-meshed steel glazing bars. On both sides of it is an entrance in a deep recess with original hanging and closing fixtures. On the ground floor of the wings are series of brick pointed arches on natural stone blocks, with recessed steel pointed arch windows. The upper storey is concealed behind a steep roof plane, covered with a blue-brown nuanced Romanesque tile. At three-quarter height of the roof plane a continuous saw-tooth-shaped window row with steel frames, which lights the corridor behind, under a profiled wooden gutter with overhang. The rear facade facing the spacious playground has broad, large timber window frames with glazing bars. The entrance in the middle has a concrete canopy. The upper part of the facade surface above the entrance is covered with vertically applied roof tiles. Inside, of particular importance are the staircases with granite steps, finely worked teak wood handrails and the rectangular leaded glass windows with geometric motifs in bright colours. The lamp, an assembly of metal rods, spheres and tubes of white glass, lies disassembled in the attic. Assessment School building with boundary wall, as a valuable representative of Amsterdam School architecture of general importance because of its great architectural-historical value and because of the architectural integrity of its exterior as well as because of its urban planning situation in spatial relation to the opposite Grunobuurt and because of the quality of the design, which may be regarded as one of the highlights in the oeuvre of Groningen architect S.J. Bouma.