Van Nelle Fabriek
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, comprising a complex of factories, with façades consisting essentially of steel and glass, making large-scale use of the curtain wall principle. It was conceived as an ‘ideal factory’, open to the outside world, whose interior working spaces evolved according to need, and in which daylight was used to provide pleasant working conditions. It embodies the new kind of factory that became a symbol of the modernist and functionalist culture of the inter-war period and bears witness to the long commercial and industrial history of the Netherlands in the field of importation and processing of food products (coffee, tea and tobacco) from tropical countries, and their industrial processing for marketing in Europe.
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.
- Release date 2021
- Medal Alloy Name Alpaca
- Medal Alloy Color Silver
- Medal Diameter 38.00
- Medal Thickness 2.75
- Medal Edge Serrated, fine
- City Rotterdam
- Country The Netherlands
- Available yes
- Location ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
- Release date 2021
- Medal Alloy Name Nordic Gold
- Medal Alloy Color Gold
- Medal Diameter 38.00
- Medal Thickness 2.75
- Medal Edge Serrated, fine
- City Rotterdam
- Country The Netherlands
- Available yes
- Location ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS