Kantoorgebouw, Rokin 58

English translation

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Description

Introduction

An OFFICE BUILDING with storage space on the ground floor, completed in 1898. Built on the commission of N.V. Vriesseveem. The architect was G. van Arkel, who employed sober art nouveau as the building style in his design. An elongated and narrow building with a recessed lantern positioned between the front and rear structures. The offices were located on the upper storeys. On the second storey was a meeting room. On the ground floor, alongside the storage space, part was designated as accommodation for the barge operators.

NB.

In 1919, at the commission of J.H. de Bussy, a renovation was carried out by contractor M. Jansen, whereby the building's function changed to shop with storeroom. The original central double wooden hinged warehouse doors on the ground floor were removed. The skirting was continued and a shop window was installed. Recently the shop front has been completely renewed in glass and extends from ground floor through the first storey.

Description

A building created on a rectangular ground plan. On the Rokin side four storeys can be distinguished: a ground floor and three further storeys.

The front section is covered with a flat roof. The front facade is rendered and painted white. Hard stone plinth with moulding. Centrally located is the renewed shop front. To the left and right of this a entrance door. Jambs with consoles and a triple-glazed fanlight above the transom. On the storey on either side of the new shop front a narrower window with single-glazed fanlight. Above the continuous sill on the wall dividers with chamfered sides four wrought-iron protruding attachments and connections of a continuous metal rod. Above these attachments with abutments are elements of an worked facade moulding. Above the first storey window a broad natural stone facade stone with crowned shield and two heraldic lions. Above the narrower windows a smaller natural stone plain facade stone with inset cassette. At the level of the second storey three windows with lower sill. Circular decorative element on the left and right wall dividers. In the centre a glazed window with fourfold-glazed fanlight with leaded glass window infill. On either side of this a comparable window with twofold-glazed fanlight. Above the narrow windows a recessed natural stone spandrel formed by the chamfered sides of the wall dividers continuing as shoulders and spout. In the spout an undecorated escutcheon. The central window has a similar but broader and lower spandrel. Above this the two-part small balustrade of the three-sided recessed loggia located on the third storey with windows and entrance door. On the balustrade's parapet a central squat column with cube capital. Wall openings in said form with the shoulders and the spout. On either side of this loggia a half-column on console and with cube capital. These half-columns serve as console or corbel providing support for the gutter moulding on corbels. Left and right still a simple window with spandrel in the said form. At the corners of the facade at the level of the third storey a console with moulding on which animal sculpture. This assembly in turn serves to support a pier with a pair of quarter-columns with cube capital. Metal element at the front. The superstructure with natural stone decorated cornice projects beyond the gutter moulding.

Valuation

Office building of general importance on account of its architectural-historical value. Of particular importance for the history of architecture, as well as importance due to the high-quality aesthetic qualities of the design.