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SCHOOL BUILDING ROTTERDAMSCH LYCEUM

J.H. DE ROOS, W.F. OVEREIJNDER, 1927-1929, Pieter de Hoochstraat 29, Rotterdam

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
De Roos & Overeijnder
Herman de Roos
Willem Overeijnder

BUILDING TYPE:
Buildings for education

Built to rehouse its present occupants, this building for a secondary school stands on the site of the cemetery of the long-vanished village of Schoonderloo. Its architects, the Rotterdammers De Roos and Overeijnder, wielded a style akin to that of Dudok, who built a great many schools in Hilversum. An elongated block of classrooms and an entrance marked by an arched gateway of decorative wrought-iron lettering and a tall tower, are modelled in a cubist idiom. Later additions in 1939 and 1975 lessened the sculptural impact of the composition. In 2004 a canteen, whose steel and glass contrast with the otherwise all-brick building, replaced the 1975 extension.