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COURTHOUSE ROTTERDAM
W.C. METZELAAR, 1895-1899, Noordsingel 113-117, Rotterdam
Gerechtsgebouw Rotterdam / Courthouse Rotterdam ( W.C. Metzelaar )
© 2007 Rook & Nagelkerke

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Willem Cornelis Metzelaar

ARTIST:
Arend Odé

BUILDING TYPE:
Government buildings

Formerly housing the district courts, this building was designed by W.C. Metzelaar who was appointed architectural engineer for prisons and courthouses in 1883. Built in neo-Renaissance style, its symmetrical facade sports decorative yellow brickwork with freestone dressings. Behind it lies an earlier work, A.C. Pierson's prison complex of 1872, reached through a gateway in the courthouse with statues of Justitia, a sage and a supplicant atop its pediment. In 1996 the law courts moved to new premises at Kop van Zuid.