2432. Denis Bank Building, Bandung, Indonesia

 

Dear Josef,

Architect Albert Aalbers worked in the Netherlands 

between 1924 and 1930 and then migrated to the Dutch 

East Indies. In Bandung, the DENIS bank (the present-day Bank Jabar) and the Savoy Homann Hotel (last 

renovated by Aalbers) still carry Aalber's ocean wave 

ornamentation.

Best regards,

R

495. Hotel Savoy-Bandung. Indonesia

Mon cher David,

The wonderful Hotel Savoy in Bandung reminds me the
architecture of the first years of Frank Lloyd Wright or
the energetic horizontal lines in Erich Mendelsohn's
projects. The pretty much unknown dutch architect,
Albert Frederik Aalbers, designed this fabulous building
to be built at that time in the Dutch East Indies, today
Indonesia, where he had moved in 1928 to open his
professional office.

Again thank you and congratulations for your wonderful
blog: http://archipostcard.blogspot.com/

Cheers.
R