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HOUSING BLOCK WESTZEEDIJK
F.L. LOURIJSEN, -1928, Westzeedijk 126-130, Rotterdam
Woongebouw Westzeedijk / Housing Block Westzeedijk ( F.L. Lourijsen )
© 2007 Rook & Nagelkerke

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Frans Lourijsen

ARTIST:
Jan Altorf

BUILDING TYPE:
Housing

There are 24 apartments in the complex, accessed by three entrances decorated with bronze doors with narrow stained glass windows, and a lobby containing marble figures of animals. The dwellings were designed as service flats with the appropriate facilities including a house cleaning service, a safe, guest rooms, delivery hatches, shoe cleaning and a meals service (every apartment has a dumbwaiter). Residential 'hotels' like this were prevalent in The Hague, and Lourijsen can indeed be assigned to the 'New Hague School' of architects.