The Kota Post Office ( Indonesian : Kantor Pos Kota ) is a historic building in Kota, Jakarta , Indonesia; operated by Pos Indonesia . It was designed by Ir. R. Baumgartner in 1929 as the Post- en telegraaf kantoor . The building is one of the buildings in Fatahillah Square .
6-531: The building was designed in an early modern style known as Nieuwe Zakelijkheid which was popular in the Netherlands and became popular in the Dutch East Indies by the end of 1920s. The style was slightly conformed to the tropical climate of Indonesia with the addition of 'double facade' concept, a typical element of tropical Indische architecture . Buildings within the vicinity of Kota Post Office designed in
12-462: A similar style include Bank Mandiri Museum (1929). The building currently houses a contemporary art gallery. [REDACTED] Media related to Kota Post Office at Wikimedia Commons This article about a building or structure in Indonesia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nieuwe Zakelijkheid Nieuwe Zakelijkheid , translated as New Objectivity or New Pragmatism,
18-537: Is a Dutch period of modernist architecture that started in the 1920s and continued into the 1930s. The term is also used to denote a (brief) period in art and literature (especially the early novels Blokken , Knorrende Beesten , and Bint by Ferdinand Bordewijk ). Related to and descended from the German movement Neue Sachlichkeit , Nieuwe Zakelijkheid is characterized by angular shapes and designs that are generally free of ornamentation and decoration. The architecture
24-486: Is based on functional considerations and often includes open layouts that allow spaces to be used with flexibility. Sliding doors were included in some of the designs. The movement is associated with Het Nieuwe Bouwen (new building) and was contemporary and related to cubism and De Stijl , and applies similar design principles to architecture. Dutch architects working in this style included Theo van Doesburg , Gerrit Rietveld , and J.J.P. Oud . The architectural style
30-431: Is similar to the artwork of Piet Mondrian , who was working contemporaneously with the architects. Common influences are also seen in furniture designs. Some critics associated the style with dogmatic Marxism or Capitalism , seeing in the buildings a reflection of the mass-produced values that comes with a focus on economy rather than craftsmanship. By the end of the 1920s, Nieuwe Zakelijkheid had become popular in
36-518: The Dutch East Indies . The style was slightly conformed to the tropical climate of Indonesia with the addition of the 'double facade' concept, a typical element of tropical Indische architecture . The earliest example of this is the office of the Netherlands Trading Society building (1929) in Batavia, Dutch East Indies now Mandiri Museum , built under a well-planned spatial planning around
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