Witte Huis
Ten-storey Art Nouveau office tower of white glazed tiles, among Europe's earliest high-rises.
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This guide to the Witte Huis in Rotterdam stands you in front of a stone dragon and goes back to eighteen ninety-seven, when two brothers, Gerrit and Herman van der Schuyt, set out to raise an American-style office tower on a soggy harbour quay. It follows the skeptics who said the soil would never carry it, and the summer the building work began. Best heard from the quay side, where you can see the corner turrets and their dragons.
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