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Lisette Kappers

Sander Nelissen

Suzanne Fischer

Willem-Jan Paijmans

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Meeting point:

Amsterdam Central Station, Stationsplein (city side), in the middle of the main hall, near entrance of the metro

Late, lost or sick?

Call Franca at +31 6 86130604

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Please bring

ICOM-card / Museumjaarkaart

(Train-tickets will be provided!)

Date

1 June

Meeting time

8h50 at the entrance hall of Amsterdam Central Station

Start tour

9:08 train departure to Rotterdam Central Station

Coffee

Bring coffee on the train if you like ; )

This visit has no coffee break until lunch.

End tour

16h00 in Rotterdam

train departure 16:12 and 16:24

17h00 approximately arrival at Amsterdam Central Station

Kind of tour

Bike tour

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10:00 - Bike rental at Zwaan bikes

10:15 - Departure on tour

10:30 - Justus van Effen complex

11:30 - Van Nelle factory

12:30 - Lunch

13:30 - Resuming the tour

14:00 - Sonneveld House

15:10 - Lijnbaan

16:00 - Returning the bikes at Zwaan bikes

e.g. 16:24 - Train back to Amsterdam Central Station

17:05 - Arrival Amsterdam Central Station

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Justus van Effenstraat, 3027 TK Rotterdam

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By bike, we will visit a large array of 20th -century building structures (from solitaire to urban scale) where AFR has been carried out and reconstructions have been undertaken in various ways.

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Address: Lijnbaan, Rotterdam

The final visit of the tour is the first purpose-built pedestrian street in Europe, The Lijnbaan (1953), designed by the firm Van den Broek & Bakema.

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Address: Jongkindstraat 12, Rotterdam

The Sonneveld House (1930s), similarly to the Van Nelle factory, was also designed by the Brinkman and Van der Vlught architectural firm, following the same Dutch Functionalist style.

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Huis Sonneveld

Huis Sonneveld is een van de best bewaard gebleven woonhuizen in de stijl van Het Nieuwe Bouwen. De vrijstaande villa uit 1933 werd ontworpen door architectenbureau Brinkman en Van der Vlugt in opdracht van Albertus Sonneveld, een van de directeuren van de Van Nellefabriek. De architecten ontwierpen een totaalconcept waarin architectuur, interieur en inrichting minutieus op elkaar zijn afgestemd en elkaar versterken. De woning is licht en ruim, met veel balkons en grote raampartijen die uitzicht bieden op het groen van de omliggende tuin. Bijna alle meubels en lampen in het huis zijn afkomstig van de firma Gispen, soms speciaal voor de Sonnevelds gemaakt. Juist dit maatwerk verraadt de hang naar luxe en comfort van de familie. Daardoor is Huis Sonneveld geen dogmatisch voorbeeld van functionalisme, maar een persoonlijke leefomgeving.

Huis Sonneveld is een van de best bewaard gebleven woonhuizen in de stijl van het Nieuwe Bouwen, met een interieur dat teruggebracht is naar de staat van oplevering in 1933. Het reconstrueren, verrijken en toegankelijk maken van dit totaalconcept van kunst, interieur en architectuur is een duidelijke keuze voor een integrale benadering van ontwerpdisciplines en geschiedschrijving.

programmalijn Landschap en Interieur

folder Revitalisering Huis Sonneveld

ontwerp Marc Hollenstein, Thomas Bircher

technische realisatie Hoppinger

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Address: Van Nelleweg 1, Rotterdam

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Van Nelle factory was constructed in 1920 by the Brinkman and Van der Vlught architects firm. This is one of the well-preserved Modern movement architectural constructions of the Dutch Functionalist style.

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Outstanding Universal Value
Brief synthesis
Designed and built in the 1920s, the Van Nellefabriek demonstrates an extremely accomplished industrial architecture. It comprises a complex of buildings consisting of several factories aligned along the perspective of a large internal roadway, and close to several means of transport (canals, roads, railway lines). Supported on an internal structure of reinforced concrete, the facades of the main buildings consist essentially of steel and glass, making large-scale use of the curtain wall principle. Via a common purpose agreed between the entrepreneur and the project architects and engineers, the Van Nellefabriek embodies an ideal factory, open to the outside world, whose interior working spaces are progressive, and in which daylight is used to provide pleasant working conditions. It embodies the accomplished realisation of a new kind of factory that has become a symbol of the modernist and functionalist culture of the inter-war period. Lastly it bears witness to the long port-related economic tradition of the Netherlands, in the processing of imported food products (coffee, tea and tobacco) and their marketing in Europe.

Criterion (ii): The Van Nellefabriek brings together and makes use of technical and architectural ideas originating from various parts of Europe and North America in the early 20th century. It is exceptionally successful both in terms of its industrial setup and its degree of architectural and aesthetic accomplishment. It represents an exemplary contribution by the Netherlands to the Modernism of the inter-war years, and has since its construction become an emblematic example and an influential reference throughout the world.

Criterion (iv): In the context of industrial architecture in the first half of the 20th century, the Van Nellefabriek is an outstanding illustration of the values of relationships with the environment, the rational organisation of production flows, and dispatch via the nearby communication network, maximum admission of daylight to the internal spaces via the widespread use of a glass curtain wall with metal frames, and open interior spaces. It expresses the values of clarity, fluidity and the opening up of industry to the outside world.
Integrity
Throughout a long industrial history devoted to the same activity of industrial processing and packaging of food products, the various factories and their functional relationships with the logistical spaces (warehousing, dispatching, transport) have remained unchanged. The ensemble of buildings was preserved when the premises underwent an economic conversion in the late 1990s. The conditions of integrity in terms of composition (location and organisation of territory, functional relationships, panoramic views, etc.), and in architectural terms in its various aspects, have been met.
Authenticity
The restructuring and restoration of the property undertaken for economic reasons from 2000 to 2006 was carried out on a property which had been generally well maintained, and had never undergone reconstruction or conversion after its original construction at the end of the 1920s. The works have been carried out with great care, as part of a model project. The property's authenticity has thus been appropriately preserved in each of its aspects, and this is clearly perceptible both to the visitors and to the new business users of the Van Nellefabriek.
Protection and Management requirements
The Van Nellefabriek enjoys the highest level of state protection as it has been a listed national monument since 1985. A large buffer zone has been established to ensure good visual expression of the property in an open environment. The overall protection of the whole ensemble will be guaranteed by the new Municipal urban development plan, whose drawing up is nearing completion, and by the inclusion of environmental preservation measures in the urban development plans for the five zones of its urban environment.

The property is managed by its current owner and operator, the private group Van Nelle Design Factory. The management of the conservation of the property's architectural, urban and environmental values is based on the cooperation between the heritage departments of the City of Rotterdam and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. They jointly drew up the property's management plan (January 2013) and their cooperation has been made permanent in the form of a Joint Management Committee which has been enlarged to include new experts. The property's prime purpose is to accommodate economic activities in industrial, commercial and service fields. It is already open for visits, but this is seemingly not a major objective; frequency of visits could however increase over the coming years, giving rise to a need for specific facilities, which in turn must not be allowed to adversely affect the property's integrity and authenticity.

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Van Nellefabriek was designed and built in the 1920s on the banks of a canal in the Spaanse Polder industrial zone north-west of Rotterdam. The site is one of the icons of 20th-century industrial architecture, ...

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Address: Justus van Effenstraat

This building consists of 273 dwellings and was designed by Michiel Brinkman (1919). Its restoration was completed in 2012 and it won the 2016 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize.

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justus van effen World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize

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Sonneveld House, tourguide Hetty Berens

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Lijnbaan apartment buildings | Post-war reconstruction Community Rotterdam (wederopbouwrotterdam.nl)

Lijnbaan shopping precinct | Post-war reconstruction Community Rotterdam (wederopbouwrotterdam.nl)

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The layout of the Lijnbaan, which separates shops and apartments, paved the way for a new concept of urban living: high-rise blocks arranged around green courts.

The Lijnbaan, the daring shopping gallery close to Coolsingel in Rotterdam, will be cast in shadow in early 1957 by gigantic residential blocks: skyscrapers of 40 metres in height, containing 14 floors of apartments. This extensive residential complex, expected to cost 20 million guilders, will comprise 847 dwellings, 75 shops and 97 garages. Large green courts between the blocks will allow the children of residents to play to their heart's content, without any bother from the busy traffic in the city centre. This giant housing complex can accommodate both large and small families.
De Telegraaf, 8 October 1954

'Skyscrapers' in the city

The layout of the Lijnbaan, which separates shops and apartments, paved the way for a new concept of urban living: high-rise blocks arranged around green courts. Not that the concept was entirely new, because shortly before the war, Jan Wils had drawn up a plan for the site of the old zoo, with similar apartment blocks set in green surroundings. But the combination of a shopping centre with half-open courts was new and uncommon in a city centre. There were in fact just two courts: Joost Banckertsplaats and Jan Evertsenplaats. The third slab of apartments on Kruiskade does not overlook a green court. Nor does the fourth block, 13 floors tall, only completed in 1969 when the Lijnbaan was extended. Its gallery side does overlook Jan Evertsenplaats. A fifth slab of apartments that completes the Lijnbaan ensemble stands somewhat further away, near the railway post office.

At 4 o'clock last Wednesday afternoon, urban designer C. van Traa, director of the Department of City Development, lit a fresh cigar in a tent on the construction site between Karel Doormanstraat and the rear side of the Lijnbaan. He listened, seemingly impassively, to a number of speeches. His feet firmly planted on the ground in Rotterdam, he stood silently amidst city officials, heads of large building contractors, directors of powerful investment companies, architects, heads of city departments. This was his day, the day the first pile of the apartment blocks around the Lijnbaan sank into the ground. Thanks to his driving force and the unique collaboration between investors, contractors, architects and city authorities, these monumental buildings will add an exciting skyline to the city in a few years.
Het Vrije Volk, 16 June 1955

Courts

A total of 850 apartments were built in what today would hardly be called high-rise. The clients were pension funds and investors, among them the Philips pension fund and Olveh life assurance company.

Positioned perpendicular to each other around the green courts of Joost Banckertplaats and Jan Evertsenplaats were two buildings of thirteen and nine floors. A low-rise building containing shops topped by two floors of apartments closed the court to Karel Doormanstraat. The fourth side of the court was left unbuilt, as the space was not intended for the residents only but for everybody in the city centre. The apartment blocks overlooking Joost Banckertsplaats were named after the clients, as we see from the advertising letters on the roof: Olvehflat and Nillmijflat. The 13-floor slab on the edge of the Lijnbaan ensemble on Kruiskade was named City House.

Architect Maaskant supervised construction of the blocks, which were detailed by various architects. Maaskant himself designed the Cityflat and the low-rise blocks on Karel Doormanstraat, A. Krijgsman (1902-1986) the two blocks on Joost Banckertsplaats, and Herman Bakker (1915-1988) the two blocks on Jan Evertsenplaats. A mural by Louis van Roode adorns the hall of the Olveh block.

Built-in bath

Galleries on the north and east sides provide access to the high-rise blocks. A central hall on one side contains lifts and the main staircase, and there is a second emergency staircase on the other side. Lifts stop midway between two floors, which was standard practice in the 1950s. The apartments above the shops on Karel Doormanstraat are accessed from porch entrances on the court side.

Almost all homes are compact three-room apartments; slightly larger apartments are positioned at the ends of the blocks next to the lift and staircase. For their time, these were luxury apartments: 'Among the standard fittings are a factory-made kitchen and stainless-steel draining board, house telephone, special lift for rubbish bags, central mast for radio and television and bathroom with built-in bathtub.' The Cityflat on Kruiskade was even more luxurious. Rents were relatively high.

Apart from the ground-floor stops in the low-rise blocks, three of the four tall slabs also contained shops. A retail unit also occupied the end of the Olveh block on Joost Banckertsplaats. The first floor of this block was reserved for doctors' surgeries, and the well-known hairdresser John Postmus has his salon here. Shops also occupied the ends of the nine-floor slabs.

Located right beside the entrance to the Olveh block on Karel Doormanstraat, one of the five imposing residential slabs behind the Lijnbaan, which gives the centre of Rotterdam such allure, is the fifth and youngest branch of the John Postmus hairdressers-perfumery-cosmetics chain. It is a modern, luxury salon with a cosy ground-floor boutique, separated from the hall of the apartment block by a glass wall, which sells everything in the area of toiletries, cosmetics and perfume.
Nieuwe Schiedamsche Courant, 18 January 1958

Today

The apartments were initially occupied by many families with children, with the green courts used as play areas. But the apartments were relatively small, and high-rise was increasingly seen as less suitable for families with children, who gradually moved out to the new suburbs. From the late 1980s onwards, the relatively ageing residents were joined by young couples without children. This new group discovered the Lijnbaan apartments as an attractive city centre residential location. Minor adjustments have ensured that the entrances are no longer open to the public. The apartments on Joost Banckertsplaats were renovated in 2016.

Details

Location: Kruiskade; Joost Banckertsplaats; Jan Evertsenplaats

Architect: H.A. Maaskant; H.A. Maaskant, A. Krijgsman; H.D. Bakker

Year: 1954-1956

National Heritage Site

The Doelen opens

On the 18th of May 1966 The Doelen opens on construction day. The pinnacle of the first twenty years of post-war reconstruction.

General

Buildings

National Monuments

Lijnbaan shopping precinct

In the post-war years the Lijnbaan marked a revolution in urban design. Instead of shops with housing above along both sides of a street of traffic, such as Hoogstraat, the Lijnbaan shops lined pedestrian promenades.

Buildings

National Monuments

Expeditiehoven en straten

In opdracht van de dienst Stadsontwikkeling van de Gemeente Rotterdam heeft Platform Wederopbouw Rotterdam een verkenning van de Rotterdamse expeditiehoven en -straten uitgevoerd.

Symposium Opbouwdag Toekomstbestendig Wederopbouwerfgoed

In een periode waar wederopbouwarchitectuur vernieuwd, herbenoemd of gesloopt wordt speelt de vraag hoe het gebouwde erfgoed van de stad toekomstbestendig kan worden gemaakt. Tijdens het symposium op vrijdag 17 mei 2019 spraken architecten, stadmakers en eigenaren over dit Rotterdamse thema in het voormalige bouwcentrum.

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The layout of the Lijnbaan, which separates shops and apartments, paved the way for a new concept of urban living: high-rise blocks arranged around green courts.