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Appartmentvilla Parklaan in Sittard
22 Oct 2021
Design: Humblé Martens & Willems Architecten
Location: Sittard, The Netherlands

Appartmentvilla Parklaan
The Parklaan is considered by many Sittard residents to be the most beautiful or the most chic residential street in Sittard. Located close to the city center and built with stately villas in the 1920s, three of which have been designated national monuments and 5 other buildings are municipal monuments.

Until 1913 a narrow dike ran along the banks of the stream. The old dike was widened and a wide representative avenue was built in its place. The villas had a very deep front garden and were surrounded by greenery as if they were so close to the city center in the middle of nature. They can only be reached via a bridge over the stream.
All three nationally listed houses were designed by Jos Wielders. He navigated deftly between Amsterdam School, Art Deco, English Arts and Crafts and later on to a smooth modernism. His development can be read in his villas on the Parklaan. The location where we were asked to design an apartment complex is in between.

In 1966 a neat cantonal court was built at this location of ‘good standing’. The justice building had taken on the scale of an oversized villa, lined with tall trees. This dismantled court had to be replaced by an apartment complex. However, as is often the...