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DIJKGRAAF W. DE BOER PUMPING STATION
J. DEN HOLLANDER, 1987-1990, Kanaaldijk 11, Spijkerboor (Jispersluis)
Dijkgraaf W. de Boergemaal / Dijkgraaf W. de Boer Pumping Station ( J. den Hollander )
© 2006 Jan Derwig

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Jord den Hollander

BUILDING TYPE:
Civil engineering works

This simple edifice consists of a rectangle of alternating light and dark bands of brick with inside it a glass block cylinder housing two rotary pumps. The cylinder has a pyramid-shaped roof which can be removed to change the pumps. Two tapering steel beams projecting through one of the side walls announce the presence of a travelling crane, there to raise the pumps should they need maintenance. Small aluminium rotary pumps by the same architect can be found here and there in the surounding polder landscape.