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OWN OFFICE SOETERS
SJ. SOETERS, 1988-1989, Kerkstraat 204, Amsterdam
Eigen kantoorgebouw Soeters / Own Office Soeters ( Sj. Soeters )
© 2004 Rook & Nagelkerke

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Sjoerd Soeters

BUILDING TYPE:
Office buildings

STATE:
(uitbr. 1990-1991); (uitbr. 1999-2002)

The office in Kerkstraat of the Soeters Van Eldonk architectural practice incorporates a converted church, three historical premises and five storeys of new-build. The brick facade of the former Martin Luther King Chapel of 1967 is wrapped in corrugated aluminium sheet and topped with a high-techy cornice. Applying the corrugated sheet part horizontally and part vertically, bringing out the diagonal joins and sinking the windows deep, together generate a refined play of light and shadow. The new-build part has a facade assembled from slender classical columns, grouped in threes and twos or singly, and stepped cornices. The entrance is in the converted houses.