Utrecht Library
Amsterdam School post office turned library, with glazed-brick parabolic arches and deco statues.
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This guide to the former main post office on Neude in Utrecht, now the city library, follows architect Joseph Crouwel and sculptor Hendrik van den Eijnde as they dressed a nineteen-twenties hall in glazed brick and blackened stone. It turns on the post office bosses who decided where art belonged, and on the citizens who paid for something the budget could not. Best heard standing under the arches of the central hall.
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