General Information
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Office building |
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Awards and Distinctions
| 1986 |
for registered users |
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Location
| Location: |
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands |
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| Coordinates: | 51° 55' 8" N 4° 29' 30" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| height | 43 m |
Cost
| cost of construction | Dutch guilder 127 900 |
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Witte Huis (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌʋɪtə ˈɦœys]) or White House is a building and National Heritage Site in Rotterdam, Netherlands, built in 1898 in the Art Nouveau style. The building is 43 m (141 ft) tall, with 10 floors. It was also the first hoogbouw (literally: high-rise building) in Europe. The building is listed as a Rijksmonument.
Construction
The architect Willem Molenbroek designed the 10-storey building, at the time an unprecedented height in Europe. The site at Wijnhaven 3 is just 1 m above sea-level and skeptics claimed that the soft soil of Rotterdam would be unable to adequately support the building, so before construction could properly begin, 1000 piles were driven into the ground to support the building's weight. The building is constructed from iron and steel and concrete, and includes two thick interior walls which increase the building's strength. Unlike many other contemporary buildings of the time, wood was not a significant construction material due to the fear of fire. The building cost 127,900 Dutch guilders.
It was also one of the few buildings in central Rotterdam to survive the German bombing campaigns of World War II.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Witte Huis" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20052287 - Published on:
22/01/2010 - Last updated on:
16/05/2015
