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MINISTRY OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS
H. HERTZBERGER, 1979-1990, Anna van Hannoverstraat 4-6, Den Haag
Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid / Ministry of Social Affairs ( H. Hertzberger )
© 2006 Rook & Nagelkerke

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Herman Hertzberger

BUILDING TYPE:
Office buildings
Government buildings

The mass of this office building for 2400 employees divides into 16 interlinked octagonal towers. As in Centraal Beheer in Apeldoorn (1972) the enormous office area is broken down, using a family of precast concrete beams and columns set in a square grid, into so many ‘islands’ linked in an expanding series of clusters. Its spatial backbone is a tall full-length void containing all the principal stairs and lifts.