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HOFPLEIN VIADUCT; HOFBOGEN

A.C.C.G. VAN HEMERT (HBG), 1899-1908, Vijverhofstraat, Rotterdam

PEÑA architecture

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Hollandsche Maatschappij tot het maken van werken in Gewapend Beton
Alphons van Hemert

ARTIST:
Jan Altorf

:
Gabriel Raúl Peña
Afaina de Jong

BUILDING TYPE:
Civil engineering works

STATE:
PEÑA Architecture (ren. 2008-2011 Mini Mall)


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Luchtsingel
Station Rotterdam Bergweg

This concrete viaduct was constructed at the turn of the century by the then new Zuid-Holland electric railway company (ZHESM) for a rail link between Hofplein and Scheveningen. Almost two kilometres long, it is one of the first large concrete structures in the Netherlands. The enterprise specially set up to construct it would later become the HBG construction company. The viaduct consists of 189 arches, whose openings were colonized by warehouses, shops and companies. In 1918, J.J.P. Oud as City Architect drew up a plan to erect temporary housing between the arches. Hofplein station, designed by J.P. Stok, perished during the wartime bombing raid and since then its successor designed by Van Ravesteyn has been demolished. The arrival of Randstadrail has made the Hofplein Viaduct redundant.