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GEDUNG MERDEKA BANDUNG

GEDUNG MERDEKA BANDUNG

Admin Monday, 18 October 2021 04:24

Merdeka Building (IndonesianGedung Merdeka) is an art-deco building in Jalan Asia-Afrika, BandungIndonesia. Today it serves as a museum displaying collections and photographs of the Asian–African Conference, the first Non-Aligned Movement that was held there in 1955.

The present building was designed in 1926 in art deco style by Van Galen and C.P. Wolff Schoemaker, both professors at Technische Hogeschool (today ITB) and famous architects of that time. The 7500 m² building had Italian marble floors, some saloon and rooms in cikenhout wooden finishing, and was adorned with crystal lamps on the ceilings.

 

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