Castalia (The Hague)
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Castalia Ministry of VWS |
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| Castalia (office tower) | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | Parnassusplein 5 (Oude Stad) |
| Opening: | 1967 |
| Renovation: | 1998 |
| Status : | completed |
| Architectural style : | Postmodern architecture |
| Architects : | Jan Lucas (Lucas & Niemeijer) 1967, Michael Graves 1998 |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | Ministries |
| Main tenant: | Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport and Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werk Genealogieheid |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 103.59 m |
| Floors : | 21 (above ground) |
| Height comparison | |
| The Hague : | 8. ( list ) |
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| City: | The hague |
| Country: | Netherlands |
The Castalia is the eighth tallest building in the with a height of almost 104 meters Dutch city of The Hague . This includes the Dutch ministries for “Public Health, Welfare and Sport” ( Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport ) and “Social Affairs and Labor” ( Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werk Genealogieheid ).
history
The building was built in 1967 by the architect Jan Lucas . At that time only to a height of 73 meters. Like many high-rise buildings in The Hague that were built from 1965 onwards, it was built using the so-called jack block system. A process in which several concrete blocks were laid next to each other in a row, this row was hydraulically raised and then, also hydraulically, pressed horizontally against each other and thus fixed. The vertical presses could now be released and the next row of blocks to be pushed up could be added below. In the 1990s the building was completely renovated and redesigned in the style of postmodernism . The architect of the building, completed in 1998, was Michael Graves .
Naming
The original name of the building, until it was renovated by Graves in the 1990s, was Transitorium . The so-called “passage house” (from Latin : trans = 'through', ire = 'to go) got its name because it was supposed to serve as the temporary seat of ministries. Since 1998 the name has been Castalia, after the Greek nymph Kastalia . Due to the two pointed high roofs, each 35 meters high, which were put on there in the course of the renovation, the building was popularly known as “ Boobs Den Haags” ('tieten van Den Haag' or 'Haagse Tieten'). These two roofs have no function, but are intended to make the office building look like a canal house in a historicizing way. Seen from a distance, they can be seen next to the silhouettes of the directly neighboring high-rise buildings, etc. a. the tallest building in the city of Hoftoren , part of the Hague skyline .
Web links
- Castalia In: architectuur.org (Dutch)
- Exciting architecture in The Hague ( Memento from April 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ information about the building of Emporis
- ↑ Structural Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture, Volume X, edited by CA Brebbia in the Google book search
Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 48 ″ N , 4 ° 19 ′ 15 ″ E