© 2006 Jan Derwig
SHIPPING OFFICE BUILDING
J.M. VAN DER MEY, 1912-1916
Prins Hendrikkade 108-114, Amsterdam
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Johan van der Mey
Michel de Klerk
Piet Kramer
DESIGN ENGINEER:
Dolf van Gendt
ARTIST:
Hendricus Albertus van den Eijnde
Hildo Krop
Willem Coenraad Brouwer
Willem Bogtman
C.A. Lion Cachet
Theo Nieuwenhuis
John Rädecker
DESIGN ENGINEER:
Johan van Gendt
INTERIOR ARCHITECT:
K&P Kentie & Partners
Ray Kentie
BUILDING TYPE:
Office buildings
STATE:
R. Kentie (ren. Grand Amrâth Hotel 2005-2008)
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Johan van der Mey
Michel de Klerk
Piet Kramer
DESIGN ENGINEER:
Dolf van Gendt
ARTIST:
Hendricus Albertus van den Eijnde
Hildo Krop
Willem Coenraad Brouwer
Willem Bogtman
C.A. Lion Cachet
Theo Nieuwenhuis
John Rädecker
DESIGN ENGINEER:
Johan van Gendt
INTERIOR ARCHITECT:
K&P Kentie & Partners
Ray Kentie
BUILDING TYPE:
Office buildings
STATE:
R. Kentie (ren. Grand Amrâth Hotel 2005-2008)
PUBLICATIONS:
H. Boterenbrood - Van der Mey en het Scheepvaarthuis, 1989; M. Beerman, F. van Burkom, F. Grijzenhout (red.) - Beeldengids van Nederland, Rotterdam 1994; de Architect interieur 25; Amsterdam Monumenten & Archeologie 7, 2008
Once the office premises of six shipping companies, this is generally considered the first building to be realized exclusively in Amsterdam School style, also thanks to De Klerk and Kramer, at that time both working at Van der Mey's office. The decoration at the fantastically sculpted entrance gives this corner a strong vertical thrust. The building's crowning achievement spatially is its geometrically ornamented central well. After the last shipping company vacated the building in 1981 it was taken over by the City of Amsterdam. Since 2008 the building is in use as a hotel.