The Groninger Forum is a project that is beginning in the city of Groningen, the Netherlands, with a planned completion in 2016. The east side of Groningen's Grote Markt was destroyed in World War II, and was replaced with buildings that have long since lost their appeal. The Groninger Forum is a new institute that will overlook the Grote Markt instead of the current buildings.
It is a centre for knowledge and culture, containing the archives and a debate centre. The cultural cinema Images, the public library, and parts of the Groninger Museum will also find a place in the Groninger Forum.
To find a design for the new building, 7 possible models were created by different architects. The citizens of Groningen voted on their favourite design, which led to a top three, from which the municipal council chose one.
Coordinates: 53°13′7.70″N 6°34′12.85″E / 53.218806°N 6.5702361°E / 53.218806; 6.5702361
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“What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)