ABSTRACT
In 1934, the famous Dutch architect Johannes Duiker was commissioned to design the Grand Hotel Gooiland: a hotel and theatre building at the southern edge of the town of Hilversum in the Netherlands. The elite who, in the 1920s, had moved out of the city of Amsterdam towards Hilversum missed the culture and nightlife of the grand city and wanted to reinstall this with Gooiland. The architect’s sudden death the year after the commission left the project at a schematic design stage. The development of the design was in the hands of P. Elling and G. W. Tuynman, under the supervision of Bernard Bijvoet, with whom Duiker had shared a practice for more than ten years.
