User talk:Buxtehude

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[edit] Glaspaleis on UNESCO list

From the Glaspaleis article you removed the statement that it has been on the Unesco World Heritage List, saying that is incorrect. Which may very well be true. I only read that in one source and I'm beginning to think they got something mixed up. But what do you base you conclusion on? I've asked Unesco and they said they'd come back to me. Which they haven't after more than a month. So aparrently it isn't even easy for them to figure this out. Or someone just forgot. DirkvdM 08:21, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Since ten years I've been following closely what was written about the Glaspaleis, but I never read that it was put on Unesco's World Heritage list. It certainly isn't on the list at this moment, and it is just highly unlikely that it would have been removed from the list since a lot has been done to preserve the building. Buxtehude 23:02, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, a reason could be that other buildings came up and there's only room for 1000 buildings on the list. Or maybe the renovations themselves were the reason (although that sounds unlikely). But since I read it only once, in a newpaper, I assume it was a mistake. (Hold on, I see now that at the Glaspaleis talk page I say I've read it twice. Can't remember the other source now.)
But what is the reason you're interrested in the Glaspaleis? Are you an architect or an inhabitant of Heerlen? Or maybe somehow related to the business (in which case we might be relatives)? DirkvdM 09:05, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

The Unesco World Heritage List is not a list of 1000 buildings. Have a look at the list yourself and I think you'll agree that the Glaspaleis wouldn't really fit in there. Maybe somebody mixed up the list of 1000 buildings that was compiled by the Union of International Architects with Unesco's World Heritage List. (It is possible though that Unesco has recognized the Glaspaleis as an outstanding building in some other way that I'm not familiar with.)
With regard to your second question: I grew up in Heerlen and even as a child I thought there was something special about some of the (semi-)public buildings in the town (like the town hall, Royal cinema, municipal theatre and St. Anne church). Later I learned that they were all buildings by Peutz. I guess that's how I got interested in architecture. Peutz has remained one of my favorite architects ever since. (By the way: my grandfather worked as an architect in Heerlen during the same time as Peutz. They probably have met each other, but since my grandfather died before I was born I was never able to ask him about that.) Buxtehude 01:40, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Also see the new website http://www.werelderfgoed.nl (in Dutch). Buxtehude 00:39, 21 March 2006 (UTC)