Borneo

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The corner building decorated with the name "Borneo" was built in the first decade of the twentieth century as a SHOP annex DWELLING HOUSE in a transitional style with art nouveau motifs to a design by the architect M. de Vries (Azn.). The building oriented at the intersection stands at a point important in urban planning terms at the historic city centre and on the connecting road to the station. Description

The corner building built from an irregular ground plan, two and three storeys high with basement has a partly flat and partly corrugated Frisian tiles covered, composite hipped roof which is truncated. The facades are of dark red facing brick with accents of yellow facing brick and plastered details. The higher rising, consisting of three facade sections central section with shop frontage has a symmetrical layout. The entrance is in the cut-off corner and consists of an original panelled door placed between pilasters with cut glass in door windows with arch tracings under a stone calf and a fanlight with three semicircle leaded-glass windows. The display windows on either side of the entrance have five-pane fanlights with bevelled upper corners above stone plinths decorated with geometric motifs, of which the right is still original and the left is modified. The wall pillars on either side of the display windows are built up from green and white facing brick with decorative edging, above which a standing coping of plastered brick with stylised flower motif. The shop front beams between them are decorated with wrought-iron decorations. Above the entrance is a rectangular wooden bay window. This rests on mortared consoles with natural stone corbels which are connected to each other by means of a segment arch. The bay window is decorated on the underside with floral decorations and on the top provided with panels and glazing bars in the upper windows. The windows on either side of the bay window are coupled and have glazed sills with fall, windows with glazing bars in the fanlights and segment arches under an equally segment arch-shaped spanning arch. On the second storey a French door opens onto the bay platform, on which a non-original iron railing stands. The windows on either side of it are composed of a higher central window and two lower side windows, all with glazing bars in fanlights and with mosaics in arch soffits under a segment arch-shaped spanning arch. The windows in the second and third storey of the central section are enclosed by a mortared frame, which in the right facade section is executed in white facing brick. The central section is closed off by an attic with blue glazed tiles, a profiled edge and corner projections. In a black glazed panel the name "Borneo" is shown. The lower part of the right side facade (Stationsstraat) is provided with a transom window with glazed edges around the right-closed basement windows and per storey three windows with glazing bars in upper windows under segment arches with simple brick mosaics in the arch soffits. The glazed sills are connected to each other on the storey. The facade is partly built up at the top and terminated by a gutter moulding on brackets. The lower part of the left side facade (Oostersingel) is provided with windows as in the right, but the facade layout is different. The bay to the left of the shop frontage contains an original door with panes of cut glass and a fanlight under a railing-supported balcony with non-original iron balustrade, on which openable balcony doors open. Above the balcony doors are three semicircle windows filled with leaded-glass under a brace-supported overhang with shed roof. The facade section to the left of the entrance bay has per storey two windows as in the right facade section within a spandrel with segment arch. In the rear right facade narrow versions of the other windows are placed. From the right corner a broad, shallow chimney shaft is built up. The rear left facade is blind and has a recessing corner with a balcony with opening doors on both storeys. Valuation

The characteristic, fairly intact building is of architectural-historical value as an example of a shop/dwelling house executed in art nouveau building style with carefully designed details and building materials characteristic for the construction period. The image-defining corner building also has urban planning and ensemble value through its location and forms part of the protected townscape of Assen.