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MERKELBACH & KARSTEN/MERKELBACH & ELLING, 1940-1951, Da Costakade 157-165, Amsterdam

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Merkelbach & Karsten
Merkelbach & Elling

ORIGINAL DESIGN:
J.W.F. Hartkamp

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Ben Merkelbach
Piet Elling
Charles Karsten

BUILDING TYPE:
Industrial and public-utility buildings
Reuse
Housing

The facades of this type foundry consist of horizontal bands of wall and window. Yet it is the vertical touches, the well-founded principal measurements of the whole and the composition which includes a deviating basement and set-back steel crown (the canteen) that make this building a successful, modern infill in a wall of canal houses. The complex spills over into existing premises, covering the entire plot at ground level. Standard workshop floors on the canal side have a concrete truss construction with a steel structure at its apex. After being home to squatters for some time, the complex was converted into flats. Parts of the interior have been moved to other buildings.