Anton Alberts
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Anton (Ton) Alberts 1929 - August 19, 1999 was a Dutch architect best known for the ING Bank (1982) in the Bijlmer district of Amsterdam and the Gas Corporation headquarters in Groningen.
Alberts was involved with Situationist International before being expelled in 1960. He had been involved with fellow Situationists Constant and Har Oudejans in setting up a labyrinth in the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, but the project fell apart amidst acrimony. Officially he was expelled for designing churches, although Asger Jorn relates the expulsion more to the "Amsterdam affair".
In 1963 he founded the firm Alberts and Van Huut with Max van Huut, guided by the principles of Organic architecture, which has been compared to the anthroposophic architecture of Rudolf Steiner.
Alberts offered to work for free on the Peace Parks in Amsterdam but was only able to create sketches before his death.