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Friday, January 16, 2004
jiwasraya (part 3) 
this building across the road from gereja blenduk soon drew my attention. it was designed in 1916 by a famous dutch architect, thomas karsten, for the nilmij - a dutch insurance company. thomas arrived in "nederlandsch-indische" at 1914, when semarang city government was enthusiast in building big buildings. not only in semarang, thomas' opinion was also asked by other center java governments. seems he was quite a famous architect at that time. nilmij building is among his first works. he's famous for his octagonal characteristic, with three floors & white floor. in those days only foreign built buildings had more than one floor. on this building, karsten blended several styles like art-deco, javanese & dutch. and as it has become an icon of "insurance", these days it also houses an insurance company, pt asuransi jiwasraya.

(special thanks to asti for the translation from dutch)
stelly @ 1:17 PM