Fabrieksgebouw, Van Hallstraat 290

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Built in 1938-1939 on the corner of Van Hallstraat and Kostverlorenvaart, a FACTORY BUILDING with flats above, designed by B. Merkelbach and Ch.J.F. Karsten in the style of Nieuwe Bouwen, commissioned by the Printing Ink Factory Gebr. Hartmann's Graficolor N.V. The main contractor was Fa. Boele & van Eesteren. The steel windows were supplied by De Vries Robbé & Co. Commemorative stone on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone: Saturday 25 March 1939.

NB. In 1941 the chimney on the varnish furnace was demolished after a fire and replaced by a new one. In the meantime this chimney has also been demolished.

Description

Factory building. On the north side of the plot there is, to the right of the access gate, a lower building belonging to the ensemble which originally housed the bicycle shed, transformer room and varnish furnace. The actual printing ink factory was originally located on the first storey. On the ground floor were the offices and showroom, behind which the dispatch area. On the south side was the car garage. A factory building constructed with various cubic volumes under slightly overhanging flat roofs on a composite rectangular ground plan. The factory has a basement storey, ground floor, first storey and a smaller, set back from the east side, second storey for the two service dwellings. The concrete skeleton is accentuated on the outside with plaster and paintwork. The intermediate facade sections are filled with yellow brickwork in bond. Steel doors and windows over the full bay width and use of natural stone sills at the windows of the north facade. The east facade is ten bays wide and has wide windows of varying height in horizontal series with four-, eight- or twelve-pane glazing bar divisions. In the second and fifth bay double loading and unloading doors under lifting beams. Strip window above basement. The west facade is also ten bays wide with steel windows; the blind northern bay is built up higher. Loading platform and two pairs of high loading flaps in the fifth bay under a lifting beam. The northern facade is two bays wide and has an entrance situated in a porch with steel door, likewise windows, as well as a six-pane round window with tilt-and-turn casement. In the porch is a natural stone commemorative stone. The south facade is blind and has a single simple access door. The second storey with the service dwellings has a canopy, composite windows and a roof terrace with three-quarter round balcony in the middle. Centrally on the roof the tall structure of the lift shaft. To the right of the access gate the one-storey building with iron railings for the open bicycle shed and some setbacks in the flat roofs. Access gate with double wide swing-open doors with heavy iron mesh and closed lower section. On the left side a separate entrance for pedestrians.

Valuation

Former printing ink factory Graficolor from 1938-1939 of general importance due to its architectural-historical, industrial-archaeological and typological values as a representative and externally largely intact example of a modernist factory building for the graphic industry, so important in Amsterdam. Also of significance in the oeuvre of Merkelbach and Karsten as leading utilitarian building architects.