GA 73 - Brinkman & van der Vlugt - Van Nelle Fabriek

GA 73 - Brinkman & van der Vlugt - Van Nelle Fabriek: The Van Nelle Factory was designed and built in the 1920s on the banks of a canal in the Spaanse Polder industrial area, northwest of Rotterdam. It is an icon of 20th-century industrial architecture. The complex consists of buildings with facades of mainly steel and glass in which the curtain wall principle was widely used. The factory was seen as 'ideal'; it was open to the outside and daylight was used for pleasant working conditions. The Van Nelle Factory embodies the new factory type that became a symbol of the modernist and functionalist culture of the interwar period. The factory also testifies to the long Dutch trade and industrial history of importing, industrial processing and marketing food products from tropical countries to Europe.