Ever heard someone call the A’dam Tower the 'Shell Tower'? It’s a relic from when the oil company still had offices there. Cultural pavilion THT was the Shell canteen until 2007. These fine examples of architecture were built between 1968 and 1974 to the design of Arthur Staal.

Modernist villas

There is more design by Staal to admire, such as the white villa from 1957, on the corner of Buiksloterweg and Tolhuisweg. Shell’s occupational health service was located here. When the oil company moved, the villa was renamed Staal villa, after its designer. But it was Kees Abspoel, a modernist from the architect group called De 8, who designed the reading house, bridge house and gatehouse next door. These were completed in 1938. Today, the white villa next to the bridge house is called Villa Abspoel.