Thanks to Martine and Max for each sending us information about the Pencil Building in Rotterdam. There is a block of flats in the large city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands called Potlood that is contained in a huge building that looks like a pencil. Max tells us:
“Great blog. This building is called ‘Het Potlood’ which is Dutch for The Pencil. The Potlood is in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It is next door to the public library of the city. Het Potlood is an apartment building.”
I suddenly want to move to the Netherlands. That building would make a great headquarters for the Revolution.
[Photo from here.]
It is a cool building, and I love the old harbor area where it is located. With the old “Witte huis” and all the fun restaurants. The cube apartments are fun but a little un-practical inside. The libary has all his “inners”, the sewer, the electricity lines etc, on the out-side ( the yellow tubes). Love to show you around when you ever want to visit. There is a cafe in the pencil building and on Saturday there is a huge week market.
Unique building. :)
wow…i’ve never seen anything dedicated to pencils…but i must say
its awesome!
A building close to it is called Eraser by some. I don’t know whether that is the official name though.