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WAREHOUSE VAN DER VLIET EN DE JONGE

W. VERMEER, I. VAN HERWAARDEN, 1950-1952, Nijmegenstraat 27, Rotterdam

ARTIST:
Joan Bakker

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Jacques van Herwaarden
Willem Vermeer
Vermeer en Van Herwaarden

BUILDING TYPE:
Industrial and public-utility buildings

It is perhaps ironic that a hardware merchant should occupy this explicitly concrete building. The complex consists of four sheds with vaulted roofs, an office building, a porter's lodge, garages and a workshop. Thick concrete beams carry the trusses and guide the electric overhead cranes. Two of those concrete beams cantilever 7.5 metres so that one overhead crane could be brought level with a railway wagon. The sheds have exterior walls of open and solid concrete elements and roofs of concrete coffered panels with glass tile windows.