Amazing Structure
Lawang Sewu Lawang Sewu ("Thousand Doors") is a landmark in Semarang,Central Jawa, Indonesia, built as the headquarters of the Dutch East Indies Railway Company . The colonial era building is famous as a haunted house, though the Semarang city government has attempted to rebrand it. ENTYMOLOGY & HISTORY The name Lawang Sewu is from Javanese ; it means "Thousand Doors". The name comes from its design, with numerous doors and arcs.The building has about 600 large windows. Lawang Sewu was designed by Cosman Citroen, from the firm of J.F. Klinkhamer and B.J. Quendag. It was designed in New Indies Style, an academically-accepted term for Dutch Rationalism in the Indies.Similar with Dutch Rationalism, the style is the result of the attempt to develop new solutions to integrate traditional precedents (classicism) with ne