White House 1898 | 20220114

White House 1898 | 20220114 | 1-memo•com | Europe’s first skyscraper the ‘Witte Huis’ – or White House at the Old Port (Oudehaven) yesterday in Rotterdam , Holland, designed by Willem Molenbroek in the Art Nouveau style – a 10-storey building , 43 meter that is 140 ft tall, at the time an unprecedented height in Europe.
One of the few buildings that survived the German bombing of Rotterdam in World War II – aka the Rotterdam Blitz.

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Night Panaroma Ghent Vrijdagmarkt Market Square

Night Panaroma Ghent Vrijdagmarkt Market Square
Vrijdagmarkt (Friday Market) last September with the Statue of Jacob van Artevelde and two monumental art nouveau buildings of the socialist movement – Ons Huis (Our Home) and Bond Moyson – built around 1900, which currently house the socialist health insurance federation and the Socialist National Trade Union Federation. Film : 20191125 Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com