Van Nelle Factory - Unesco World Heritage site
Glass-walled modernist factory once processing coffee, tea and tobacco, now a design hub.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam is about the people who worked inside it, rather than the architects who drew it. It follows co-owner Cees van der Leeuw, a theosophist with firm ideas about what a workplace owed its staff, and the coffee, tea and tobacco workers who spent their days behind its glass walls. You'll hear how the work moved through the building floor by floor. Best heard facing the glass facade, where the walkways cross between the blocks.
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