De Inktpot
Background
Built by the Dutch Railways as Head Administration Building III sober Cubist-Expressionist style by pulling the Amsterdam School design by GW of Heukelom. Together with the two previous buildings, namely Main Administration Building 1 (designed by architects NJ Kamperdijk and C. Vermeijs, built in 1870-71 / designed by AC Finch expanded in 1879) and Head of Administration Building II (designed by JF Klinkhamer, built in 1893- 95) the ensemble has the status of national monument.
The monument register speaks of a "sober detail office building in modern brick building, designed according to rationalist principles - identified in the symmetric uniformly distributed plan and the use of as many windows as well as the emphasis on the structure by the use of buttresses, pilasters and arches - and designed in a cubist-expressionist style which the great variety in slab construction volumes and rhythmic facade layout with many niches and developed buttresses characteristic; also important from the viewpoint of the administrative development of the railways, created as it was following the merger of me. Exploitation of State Railways and the Dutch Railways in 1917. "
Exterior
If Main III of Dutch Railways established large, flat-topped office at the height of five storeys - basement, ground floor and three floors bell - entirely in brick built in austere Cubist-Expressionist style designed by GW Heukelom in 1918-21 around a rectangular courtyard in a completely symmetric basis in both on the outside and on the side of the courtyard a higher uplink middle ressault with effect party in each of the walls (with the exception of the ZW-wall on the inside), and in looked down upon kicking, annex water tower in recognition of the NO to the side-situated main entrance; the whole is surrounded by a low garden brick wall, partly consisting of misfires and further provided with block-shaped reinforcements, in correspondence with the located stepwise upwardly tapering buttresses against the walls, that count, respectively, 19 and 16 bays. In addition to these buttresses are the facades further articulated by the recessed applied high narrow windows with similar steel rod division, but varying in length and width and rhythmically grouped by two, three or four, in each as a savings field treated bay with pilaster strips and dental strips in the frame .
Triple main entrance with wide and high stone sidewalk, has completed law itself abruptly deepening niches in which the double wooden doors with brass railings are installed and crowned by terracotta friezes, as well as four more senior stylized heads manufactured by WC Brouwer and lead bulb holders, recessed in the front and repeated on the corners, fitted at the Amsterdam School-related and curly motives
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De Inktpot
Background
Built by the Dutch Railways as Head Administration Building III sober Cubist-Expressionist style by pulling the Amsterdam School design by GW of Heukelom. Together with the two previous buildings, namely Main Administration Building 1 (designed by architects NJ Kamperdijk and C. Vermeijs, built in 1870-71 / designed by AC Finch expanded in 1879) and Head of Administration Building II (designed by JF Klinkhamer, built in 1893- 95) the ensemble has the status of national monument.
The monument register speaks of a "sober detail office building in modern brick building, designed according to rationalist principles - identified in the symmetric uniformly distributed plan and the use of as many windows as well as the emphasis on the structure by the use of buttresses, pilasters and arches - and designed in a cubist-expressionist style which the great variety in slab construction volumes and rhythmic facade layout with many niches and developed buttresses characteristic; also important from the viewpoint of the administrative development of the railways, created as it was following the merger of me. Exploitation of State Railways and the Dutch Railways in 1917. "
Exterior
If Main III of Dutch Railways established large, flat-topped office at the height of five storeys - basement, ground floor and three floors bell - entirely in brick built in austere Cubist-Expressionist style designed by GW Heukelom in 1918-21 around a rectangular courtyard in a completely symmetric basis in both on the outside and on the side of the courtyard a higher uplink middle ressault with effect party in each of the walls (with the exception of the ZW-wall on the inside), and in looked down upon kicking, annex water tower in recognition of the NO to the side-situated main entrance; the whole is surrounded by a low garden brick wall, partly consisting of misfires and further provided with block-shaped reinforcements, in correspondence with the located stepwise upwardly tapering buttresses against the walls, that count, respectively, 19 and 16 bays. In addition to these buttresses are the facades further articulated by the recessed applied high narrow windows with similar steel rod division, but varying in length and width and rhythmically grouped by two, three or four, in each as a savings field treated bay with pilaster strips and dental strips in the frame .
Triple main entrance with wide and high stone sidewalk, has completed law itself abruptly deepening niches in which the double wooden doors with brass railings are installed and crowned by terracotta friezes, as well as four more senior stylized heads manufactured by WC Brouwer and lead bulb holders, recessed in the front and repeated on the corners, fitted at the Amsterdam School-related and curly motives
© All rights reserved - Don't use my images on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission