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STOCKBROKER'S OFFICE

M.A.A. VAN SCHIJNDEL, 1988-1990, Rokin 99, Amsterdam

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Mart van Schijndel

BUILDING TYPE:
Office buildings

The narrow premises combine a stockbroker's office with a small top-floor apartment. A void containing the staircase in the central zone delivers daylight deep into the building. The stair swings 45 degrees back and forth between the split-level floors. The facade is built up of layers of sand-coloured and turquoise granite and surmounted by a pediment. This combination of Classical forms and materials and ultramodern mirror-glass and gaudy colours inserted into a traditional urban elevation is audacious and has not gone uncriticized.