Buildings in Drachten
Posted in Architecture, Curiosities, Modern Architecture at 20:33 on 20 June 2018
Posted in Architecture, Curiosities, Modern Architecture at 20:33 on 20 June 2018
Posted in Dutch Football Grounds, Foreign Football Grounds at 12:00 on 17 June 2018
When visiting Drachten in May 2017 (see previous posts) I found a parking space right by a sports complex. This turned out to be the De Peppel Sports Park, home of V V Drachten.
The club plays in the third Sunday class of the KNVB Noord, the sixth amateur level.
View of stadium from road:-
View of pitch from inside entrance:-
View of pitch and stand:-
View of stand:-
Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Trips at 20:00 on 30 November 2016
Drachten is a sizable town in the province of Friesland in The Netherlands.
Like most Dutch towns (I concede Frisians might not quite consider themselves Dutch) it contains buildings which verge on Art Deco in style:-
I liked these stained glass windows:-
It’s the curve that gives this the deco look but the rest seems too modern:-

This is certainly more like it. Art Deco “rule of three” in the windows, plus the roofline stepped at the ends and the detailing in the brickwork:-