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Trippenhuis
6 TOP 10 ARCHITECTURAL
MAP P4 • Kloveniersburgwal 29
Justus Vingboons’ grandiose FEATURES
façade with false middle windows
(1662) concealed the two separate
homes of the wealthy and powerful
Trip brothers, Louis and Hendrick.
The pair were arms dealers, hence
the pair of chimneys resembling
can non and other references to
weaponry in its façade.
West-Indisch Huis
7 Neck gables on Oude Turfmarkt
MAP D2 • Haarlemmerstraat
75, (entrance: Herenmarkt 99) 1 Triangular Gable
The city of New York was con ceived This simple triangular-shaped gable is
in the Dutch West India Company seen on Het Houten Huis (see p26).
building, and Pieter Stuyvesant’s 2 Bell Gable
statue still surveys the courtyard Fashionable in the late 17th and 18th
(see p45). Built in 1615, its classical centuries, bell- shaped gables can be
proportions belie its origins as a flam boyant (Prinsengracht 126) or
meat market. unadorned (Leliegracht 57).
Scheepvaarthuis
8 3 Neck Gable
Made popular by Philips Vingboons,
MAP Q2 • Prins
Hendrikkade 108 this gable has a raised centrepiece;
Oude Turfmarkt 145 is an example.
Originally a shipping company office 4 Spout Gable
designed by Van der Mey, De Klerk This plain triangular gable topped by a
and Kramer, this building spout was used for warehouses, like
(1916) is considered those at Entrepotdok (see p12).
the first true example 5 Step Gable
of the Amsterdam Common from 1600 to 1665, this gable
School of design and is has steps on both sides: Huis op de
smothered in nautical Drie Grachten has three (see p13).
whimsy. It is now a 6 Wall Plaque
luxury hotel. Before numbering was introduced,
houses were identified by illustrated
Scheepvaarthuis detail plaques (see p27).
Eerste Hollandsche
9 7 Claw Piece
Sculptures – frequently of dolphins –
Verzekeringsbank
gables. An example can be seen on
MAP L2 • Keizersgracht 174–6 were made to fill the right angles of
Gerrit van Arkel’s eye-catching 1905 Oudezijds Voorburgwal 119.
building is a fine example of Nieuwe 8 Mask
Kunst, the Dutch ver sion of Art This type of Renaissance decoration
Nouveau. Built for an insurance depicts a human or animal face; it can
company, it houses lawyers’ offices be seen at Oudezijds Voorburgwal 57.
and PR compan ies. 9 Cornices
From 1690, gables became less
Former City Orphanage
0 fashionable and decorative top mouldings
came in: examples line the Herengracht.
MAP K6 • Prinsengracht 434–6
This sober, monumental build ing in 10 Pediment Carvings
Empire style is a conversion of the Carvings often decorate the triangular
Almoners’ Orphanage by city or rounded form above doorways: see
architect Jan de Greef. From 1829 to the Felix Meritis Building (see p104).
2013, it housed the Court of Appeal.

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