Amsterdam Orphanage

Also known as Gemeentelijk Weeshuis

Year

1960

Architect

Aldo van Eyck

Type

building

Van Eyck's Orphanage (now converted to offices) is the most thoroughly documented building of Dutch structuralism and one of the canonical works of postwar architecture worldwide. The plan consists of 256 identical structural bays, each 3.3 …

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