rotterdam / central post
railway post office (central post), rotterdam, 1954 - 1959, architect: evert + herman kraaijvanger, artist: louis van roode
Automation for this railway post office meant tall work areas with a minimum of columns. Its width of 34 metres is spanned in concrete supported by just one central column. There are less-tall office storeys on the east and west sides. In the double-height work areas, the scale is determined by a horizontal window rising 2.1 metres. The uppermost level, 9.5 metres high and without columns, is clearly expressed in the facade by brick and concrete architecture typical of the post-war reconstruction.
rotterdam / central post
railway post office (central post), rotterdam, 1954 - 1959, architect: evert + herman kraaijvanger, artist: louis van roode
Automation for this railway post office meant tall work areas with a minimum of columns. Its width of 34 metres is spanned in concrete supported by just one central column. There are less-tall office storeys on the east and west sides. In the double-height work areas, the scale is determined by a horizontal window rising 2.1 metres. The uppermost level, 9.5 metres high and without columns, is clearly expressed in the facade by brick and concrete architecture typical of the post-war reconstruction.