Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		Mobbs Factory Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape SIEMERINK and BRINKMAN: Architect Gertruida Hendrika (Mrs) BRINKMAN (née SIEMERINK): Design Architect

Date: 1952 Type: Factory Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°56'40.28" S 25°35'45.63" E Alt: 53m

The factory for Mobbs in Port Elizabeth (1952) by Gertruida Brinkman was constructed in only seven months using a double storey reinforced concrete frame that supports long-span half-shell roofs. Natural daylight is admitted through southeast-facing clerestory windows that were fitted with sand-blasted prismatic glass, which, when reflected from the white distempered curved roof forms, facilitated an ‘entire lack of shadows’. (Michael Louw in Common Ground, 2021:189) Books that reference Mobbs Factory Clarke, Nicholas J, Fisher, Roger C & Kuipers, Marieke C . 2021. Common Ground : Dutch-South African Architectural Exchanges 1902-1961. The Netherlands: LM Publishers. pg 131 ill, 189, 190, 191 ill