Not just a winner, but a major winner. And Fellbach won it by
letting Zurich architect Ernst Gisel build its new town hall. And
it is just the same as winning the lottery: it takes time for it to
sink in and to be really pleased. Winning also means stress,
especially if the player never really believed in his luck.
But why be pleased about a town hall, about a collection of
official rooms, intended only to make administering the individual
citizen even smoother? Can a town hall be anything at all more than
a home for all the official panoply of tit-for-tat responses? It
can indeed, if you make it into a piece of the town, a good piece
of the town ....
Ernst Gisel's town hall for Fellbach is one of the very few
buildings that make one enthuse about the town. Like Stirling's
Neue Staatsgalerie it invites you to linger -- even without a
reason: in the Stuttgart museum you are attracted by terraces,
ramps and an open rotunda, whereas in the Feltbach building there
is a sense of a strong suction that will draw the public into the
inner courtyard of the complex. "A bit Italian" -- this is what
Gisel himself says about the atmosphere there, and he is right.
The urban quality of the new town hall corresponds with the
quality of the detailed architectural solutions and the care with
which Gisel devoted himself to the architectural design in the
interior.
Art in the building? There is that too. Gisel himself designed
the fountain for the market-place facade: architecture on a small
scale, a game with volumes through which the water slowly runs. In
the inner courtyard, in the town hall square, is a Survival Head by
Zurich sculptor Otto Mailer -- a sober monument that corresponds
precisely with the confident but modest character of the
building.
The new town hall is a fairly perfect piece of architecture and
urban art: reticent as a whole, monumental in detail, like for
example the solitaire structure in the inner courtyard.
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