Office Building “Leeuwenburg”

Zanstra and his firm designed a number of large-scale office and public buildings in the Netherlands in the 1960s and 70s. The block was built from 1971 to 1977, has accommodated banks and offices in the past and is currently in use as the Faculty of Te…

Credit communal (now BNP Paribas offices)

Marcel Lambrichs plays an important role in the post-war modernism period of Brussels and of Leopoldville (Congo). In Brussels he designed, together with Ricquier, Groupe Alpha, H. Van Kuyck and R. Schuiten, the Brussels administrative complex and the f…

Groothandelsgebouw

The Groothandelsgebouw is a large office building next to the Central Station of Rotterdam. It was built for companies which lost their office spaces during the German bombardment in 1940. The pavilion on the roof used to house a cinema. The perimeter b…

St. Gertrud

Böhm’s first big concrete church with a tent roof was built in a vacant lot between residential buildings. The free-standing tower and three narrow gable walls recede from the street line. The adjacent community center was also planned by Gottfri…

Collegio del Colle

The early “collegio del colle” is formed by a central nucleus with collective services, surronded by several groups of small residential cells, lying on a hill near the city of Urbino. Concrete and brick constructive elements are in harmonic…

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