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EXTENSION TO ALGEMENE REKENKAMER

A.E. & H. VAN EYCK, 1991-1997, Lange Voorhout 8/Kazernestraat, Den Haag

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Aldo en Hannie van Eyck

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Aldo van Eyck
Hannie van Eyck-van Roojen

ARTIST:
Jaap Hillenius

BUILDING TYPE:
Government buildings

At the rear of C.H. Peters’ monumental main building for the Netherlands Court of Audit is this extension designed by Aldo and Hannie van Eyck. It was through the intercession of Kees Rijnboutt, then Government Architect, that the eminence grise of Dutch architecture landed his first government commission. Deploying the strategy of decorative billowing forms he had used at https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/889" class="inline_link">Estec, Van Eyck ignored the land use plan and building lines and placed a freestanding, capriciously shaped building in the back yard. The office interiors for this super-respectable organization are a riot of brightly coloured ceramic tiles.