Watch your step
Staircase in the HE building of Verseidag Krefeld (architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1930/31).
Today Mies van der Rohe Business Park.
"The company buildings for Vereinigte Seidenwebereien AG (VerSeidAG) in Krefeld from 1931 were the last projects realized by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Germany before emigrating to the USA. With the cubic, white structure and the elongated window fronts, the HE building (building for menswear lining) [Herrenfutterstoffe] still stands for a functional industrial architecture in the spirit of modernity. [...] It remained the only factory built by Mies van der Rohe.
Mies van der Rohe took a new approach with industrial construction: he turned away from traditional brick construction and designed a simple steel skeleton construction with white plastered exterior walls, uniform, almost floor to ceiling window bands and a circumferential brick base. The flush facade without projections and recesses underscores the cubic character of the building.
The HE building was designed as a two-storey building with basement and attached dyeing with four shed roofs. Hard burned bricks in different shades from dark red to brown and blue to black take up the motif of the outer base in the stairwell. [...]"
(translated from www.grandtourdermoderne.de/orte/ortedetails/96/)
photo in Explore 12.09.2019
Watch your step
Staircase in the HE building of Verseidag Krefeld (architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1930/31).
Today Mies van der Rohe Business Park.
"The company buildings for Vereinigte Seidenwebereien AG (VerSeidAG) in Krefeld from 1931 were the last projects realized by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Germany before emigrating to the USA. With the cubic, white structure and the elongated window fronts, the HE building (building for menswear lining) [Herrenfutterstoffe] still stands for a functional industrial architecture in the spirit of modernity. [...] It remained the only factory built by Mies van der Rohe.
Mies van der Rohe took a new approach with industrial construction: he turned away from traditional brick construction and designed a simple steel skeleton construction with white plastered exterior walls, uniform, almost floor to ceiling window bands and a circumferential brick base. The flush facade without projections and recesses underscores the cubic character of the building.
The HE building was designed as a two-storey building with basement and attached dyeing with four shed roofs. Hard burned bricks in different shades from dark red to brown and blue to black take up the motif of the outer base in the stairwell. [...]"
(translated from www.grandtourdermoderne.de/orte/ortedetails/96/)
photo in Explore 12.09.2019