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RIJNHOTEL, AMVJ-BUILDING

MERKELBACH & ELLING, 1949-1959, Schouwburgplein 1, Rotterdam

THIS BUILDING HAS BEEN DEMOLISHED

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Merkelbach & Elling

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Piet Elling

ASSISTING ARCHITECT:
J. Kromhout

BUILDING TYPE:
Hotels, cafés, restaurants

STATE:
demolished in 2007


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Housing Block Calypso

This complex consisted of a high-rise block of 140 hotel rooms, a less-tall block containing a youth hostel (smaller rooms with communal wash and toilet units) and a low-rise block of restaurant and facilities for meetings and sports, since the 70s housing offices and a cinema. The concrete frame was faced mainly with a refined aluminium membrane. The Mauritsweg facade expressed the confrontation of an orthogonal plan with its obtuse angled urban site. During renovations carried out in 1988, hotel-rooms in the main block were enlarged and the curtain wall was replaced by an easier-to-clean cladding of sandwich panels. The building is demolished together with the nearby Pauluskerk in 2007, making place for the https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/1973" class="inline_link">Calypso housing block by William Alsop.