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Volkskas
Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng

Date:c1935
Client:Volkskas
Type:Bank
Status:Demolished

...was a retrained art deco structure, with nothing to indicate that it had aspirations to be a nationalist icon ... neither the ideological nor monumental qualities that were to become evident in Moerdyk's later work for the volk ... or for the bank. (Silverman, 1998: 131)


References:

Le Roux, SW(Ed). 1990. Plekke en Geboue van Pretoria Volume 1. Pretoria: Pretoria Argitektuurvereniging. pg 92-93