‘Bank House’ — residential building
The building may be counted among the most visually interesting realisations of its time, as there is a connection between functional architecture, individualism of form and an architectural detail. It has a strongly marked horizontal volume layout that is composed of three masses: a ‘set off’ ground floor with horizontal bands reminiscent of rusticated facade, cantilevered residential part and recessed attics. The rear (courtyard) elevation is made of gallery-like balconies. Sculptural front elevation is characteristic, with its rhythmic, non-organic divisions which are reminiscent, on the one hand, to geometric grids of the ‘Unite d’habitation’ in Marseille and on the other divisions in Mondrian’s pictures (Mondrian pattern). Association is strengthened by the black colour of protruding ‘lesenes’ and ‘cornices’ in between which windows of adequate divisions were set.