Town Hall in Koerich: Building for People, Not for Architects

Abstract

When in 2014 a shoebox-like project was announced as the winner of an architectural competition to extend the eighteenth-century vernacular town hall in the village of Koerich, there was a public uproar. Concerned citizens formed a pressure group called Quo Vadis to oppose the project, and opposition politicians promised to abandon it if they won the upcoming elections. It was then that one of the municipal technicians suggested they ask an Irish immigrant architect, the only one seemingly producing Luxembourger buildings in Luxembourg, to make a proposal.