(Vm) Kantoor Rotterdamse Lloyd

English translation

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Description

Introduction:

OFFICE BUILDING, built in 1907-09 in Transitional architecture, commissioned by the Rotterdamsche Lloyd.

N.B. The interior has been completely altered over the years. Only the Art Nouveau wrought-iron stair rail on which - below in the hall - a lantern is also mounted, is still original.

Description:

Office building situated at the corner of Calandstraat / Veerhaven of three and partly four storeys, built on a rectangular plan in yellow brick on a natural stone plinth. The building has a flat roof. Springer blocks of window spans are of natural stone, lintels of natural stone and/or iron. The windows are set in wooden frames and are rectangular, except on the ground floor at the Veerhaven where they are wider and arched. The windows have fanlights with glazing bars, partly still with original leaded glass.

Above the windows of the first and second storeys are tiled mosaics with blocking, on the first storey in rectangular sparing fields under the natural stone lintels and on the second storey under arched rolled brick courses. The gable sections at the (three) corners of the building are built higher. The western corner (Calandstraat) has a fourth storey with four windows above which a natural stone gable termination, and on either side a recessed balcony behind a natural stone parapet. (Here are situated two dwellings, house numbers 3a and 3b.) The north-eastern corner (Veerhaven) has an arched gable section between pilasters with natural stone termination in the form of lion heads. The (chamfered) corner Calandstraat / Veerhaven is marked by a projecting round (lookout) tower above a natural stone console with carved ship's bow with Hermes figureheads with winged helmet referring to commerce and shipping. The tower is crowned with a natural stone surround with Art Nouveau ornament, four waterspouts, wrought-iron parapet and a flagstaff. The entrance bay (wooden door with window behind ornamental trellis work) at the Veerhaven is accentuated by pilasters from halfway up the first storey which project through the cornice and carry a natural stone termination in the form of lion heads, between which an arched natural stone relief, a crest piece with attributes of seafaring and commerce such as anchor, hermes staff and fishes.

At the base of the pilasters are coats of arms. The gable at the Veerhaven is vertically articulated by means of the aforementioned pilasters, which divide this gable to the right of the entrance section into three gable sections three window axes wide. The gable at the Calandstraat is between the higher rising gable section entirely to the west (two by three window axes wide) and the corner/tower more horizontally articulated by long window strips per storey, in particular on the second storey where the continuous row of narrow arched windows acts as an arch frieze.

The rear facades have a sober division with window strips under iron lintels. Some of the fanlights still contain the original leaded glass.

Valuation:

Office building, built in 1907-09 in Transitional architecture commissioned by the Rotterdamsche Lloyd, of general importance by reason of its cultural-historical, architectural-historical and situational value by reason of its distinctive location at the corner of Calandstraat and Veerhaven in the traditionally shipping office-dominated 'Nieuwe Werk' or Maritime Quarter.