NACO-huisje
NACO-huisje stands beside the water in Amsterdam, next to the pontoon for ferries to Meeuwenlaan. Its three-level timber structure combines Amsterdam School design with Minangkabau and Sulawesi influences. A forward-leaning façade, wooden buffalo horns, orange roof tiles and sawtooth details give the building its distinctive outline.
Guillaume la Croix designed it around 1919 as an office for J.G. Koppe’s shipping agency. The lightweight building originally served as a ticket office for boat routes across the Zuiderzee and later the IJsselmeer. From the mid-1960s, NACO’s shipping division used it, while redevelopment behind Amsterdam Central Station changed its surroundings.
Construction forced its removal in 2004, but national-monument protection prevented demolition. After storage in Zaandam, restoration returned the building to Amsterdam in 2021, roughly 150 metres east of its first location. Today, the restored entrance provides a boarding point for museum boats serving the Hermitage, Artis and the Hortus.
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