Zonnestraal (estate)

Zonnestraal
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General information
Architectural styleModern (Nieuwe Bouwen)
LocationHilversum, Netherlands
AddressLoosdrechtse Bos 5-21
Construction started1925
Completed1931
Design and construction
Architect(s)Jan Duiker, Bernard Bijvoet

The estate Zonnestraal is a former sanatorium in Hilversum, the Netherlands. The building was designed by architects Jan Duiker Bernard Bijvoet and Jan Gerko Wiebenga, and is an example of the Nieuwe Bouwen.[1] In 1995, the estate was submitted to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites,[2][3] but it was ultimately not listed.[4]

Hubert-Jan Henket (Bierman Henket Architecten) and Wessel de Jonge Architecten were awarded the 2010 World Monuments Fund/ Knoll Modernism Prize for their restoration of the Zonnestraal Sanatorium.[5]

Deitrich Neumann, from the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, Providence, one of the members of the jury, stated "this careful restoration does full justice to the subtleties of the original building, its particular handling of light, and the seeming weightlessness of its composition. In this project, practical conservation and thorough scholarship reinforced each other in finding the best approach to the preservation of one of modern architecture's most important buildings."[5]

  1. ^ Architectuur Archived September 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Zonnestraal. Retrieved on 2009-07-23.
  2. ^ "Sanatorium Zonnestraal". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  3. ^ Docter, Rob, Hubert-Jan Henket, Wessel de Jonge. (November 5, 2019). "Outrage: Zonnestraal at risk. Dutch minister removes world famous sanatorium from the UNESCO Tentative List". Docomomo International. Retrieved January 9, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) [permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "Then & now". Zonnestraal Hilversum. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  5. ^ a b World Monuments / Knoll Prize for Modernism 2010. Zonnestraal Sanatorium (1928–1931) PDF. Retrieved 6 June 2017