Gates Peace Palace - The Hague, Netherlands
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N 52° 05.221 E 004° 17.837
31U E 588884 N 5771510
Gate of the Peace Palace in decorated copper. It was designed by Bruno Mühring and a gift from Germany to the Carnegie Foundation. The Hague, Netherlands, 1912.
Waymark Code: WMGTFP
Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 04/08/2013
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The Peace Palace is a large, square-shaped building with a plinth of grey Belgian natural stone and facades of Dutch red bricks in a combined neo-renaissance style. It has sloping slate roofs, two different towers and a west wing facade similar in quality to the front facade.
The palace and its entrance area and the surrounding gardens have been arranged in a classical manner with a north-south axis and a strong symmetry in the axis structure and division of space.
The building, that has a modest inner court with a fountain, is surrounded by gardens that are considered among the most successful designs of the English landscape architect Thomas Mawson. Mawson cleverly used a natural watercourse through the terrain, the famous ‘Haagse Beek’, for the ponds. This brook rises in the nearby dunes and still flows along a watercourse underneath the ponds to a large pond in the centre of The Hague, the 'Vijverberg’.
Embodiment of an idea
Due to its location, size and architectural quality, the Peace Palace is by Dutch standards a building of uncommon grandeur and that was precisely the intention. This project was not just about housing a judicial organisation; it was about the embodiment of an idea. What the Court lacked in authority as an international judicial institution in the early years, was more than compensated for by the formidable character, the artistic furnishings and exuberant symbolism of its housing.
The Peace Palace fitted perfectly with the dream of world peace as cherished by the First Hague Peace Conference. After its completion, it was hailed as a true dream palace for world peace, "just as powerful and grand as the idea of world peace itself’", to quote a Dutch writer of the time.
Location of this 'Gate': On public property
Type of material: Iron
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