rotterdam
europes largest harbour
Called Europes ugliest city and beeing europes largest harbour this large city is modern and lively. It is the countries secound city and is the opposite of Amsterdam with its old houses becourse its one of the most modern cities of Europe. This modernity started before world war 2 but really got to the town during the war, since it was almost erased by the germans. Highligts is one of europes best zoos as well as a great art museum
blaak
Blaak is a major street in the center of Rotterdam. The street is barely half a kilometer long, but tens of meters wide. The street is made of a sixteenth century port, called Blaak, in 1940. After the war Blaak was developed into a business center and metropolitan boulevard. On either side stand tall office buildings of banks, insurance companies and the Chamber of Commerce. The Willem de Kooning (art) Academy is located there, and there are several tower blocks. At the western end of the Blaak is Churchill Square.
Contrary to what one might think now Blaak was originally a waterway. Blaak was the old vest border for the expansion of the city towards the end of the 16th century. The city accounts for 1480/81 and 1481/82 that the west is called Blake. The name derived from blaak. Its an old Dutch word that means "shining water". In the sixteenth century the city grew substantially. This led to urban expansion in the floodplains along the Meuse: the Water City. The western boundary was extended Coolvest. Boompjes, a new quay along the Meuse River, the southern border formed. Within this area were built new ports, the Blaak was one of them. Since 1577 was land sold to heirs at the South Blaak, since 1581 also at the North Blaak. Until 1613 the vest was used for shipyards. Long Blaak was in the heart of the city. The commodity exchange, therefore, moved in 1635 to the former fish market, which was later renamed Beursplein. The new building was too small soon. A larger building was completed in 1736; bombed in 1940. In 1877 opened the centers station Bourse and the Rail bridge. In 1941 the fair moved to the new (fourth) exhibition at the Coolsingel. Bourse station was then renamed Blaak. |
Blaak tower
Blaak Tower is a residential tower. The distinctive pointed roof of the building derives its more famous nickname "Pencil". It is one of the most striking buildings in Rotterdam and forms with the adjacent cube houses a famous landmark in the city.
Blaak tower was completed in 1984. The tower is a residential complex designed by Dutch architect Piet Blom. From street level to the top of the gabled roof of the tower there are 61 meters, divided into 13 levels and a general storage space. The concrete load-bearing walls of the building, running from the inside to the outside radiating off, whereby each floor of six identical, conically widening sections exist. Five of these are used as living space, the sixth is reserved for elevators, emergency stairs and individual storage space. The gabled roof is uninhabited and is only of architectural significance. |
cebeco building
The KCAP design building was chosen through a multiple assignment. KCAP made in collaboration with DS + V also the master plan for the Laurenskwartier. Because of its unusual shape and the desired rapid construction period (21 months), the building is made of steel. This allows a highly flexible layout building. It was build in the years 2007-10.
The location of the cantilevers are slanted columns and stabilizing elements added to the façade. In the eastern façade stability crosses are visible through the glass facade. In the west facade rests on the substantiation at the entrance to the car park on freestanding steel crosses. The steel structure rests on a concrete basement with parking. The ground floor contains the main entrance to the Blaak Silk, a grand café adjacent to the Grand Place and the library. Through the window on the Blaak Lace is a bronze work of art seen from the former building. The upper floors contain flexible layout of office space around three nuclei of vertical circulation and restrooms. On the east wall are the meeting rooms located. The understated interior was designed by Fokkema & Partners. There are parquet floors and more particularly light tones are used. Lounges, atriums and stairwells between floors are meeting points for workers, who often work individually in traditional offices. The facades have the trusted setup for office buildings with alternating bands of windows and parapets. When the window bands is silkscreened glass used; the ramparts are of reddishmilled stone. The horizontal surfaces that come in sight on the cantilevers are also finished with a reddish-brown panel. |
Cube houses
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Cube houses (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest.
There are 38 small cubes and two so called 'super-cubes', all attached to each other. As residents are disturbed so often by curious passers-by, one owner decided to open a "show cube", which is furnished as a normal house, and is making a living out of offering tours to visitors. The walls and windows are angled at 54.7 degrees. The total area of the apartment is around 100 square meters, but around a quarter of the space is unusable because of the walls that are under the angled ceilings. In 2009, the larger cubes were converted by Personal Architecture into a hostel. |
de rotterdam
De Rotterdam is a building designed by Rem Koolhaas in 1998. The complex was finalized at the end of 2013. On 21 November 2013, the municipality of Rotterdam, as the largest user, received the keys. The design provides space for offices, a hotel and apartments. The 44 floors amount to a total floor space area of about 160,000 m², making it the largest building in the Netherlands.
When designing the structure, Koolhaas, who once considered a career in film, reasoned that the most frequent view of these structures would be in motion, from the window of a car. As the view changes, the towers, rising from a shared six-story plinth, separate and then merge. The building consists of three interconnected towers that share a thirty feet high base which includes six floors. The lower two layers form a large glass plinth. At about 90 meters above ground the towers -known as West Tower, Mid Tower and East Tower- are shifted a few meters in different directions, which enhances the wind stability and provides space for terraces. In the original design the towers did not touch each other, but in order to simplify the play of forces and to keep the construction affordable they are now connected in a few places. The facade provides the option of natural ventilation. On the west side there are balconies that are accessible from the apartments. De Rotterdam is designed for residency, labor and leisure. The largest part is intended as office space and residency. It has 240 apartments, 72,000 m2 of offices, conference rooms and an underground parking with two floors providing over 670 parking spaces. There is also a hotel with 285 rooms and 1500 m2 is assigned to cafes and restaurants. For fitness facilities 2,500 m2 is reserved and for shops 5,000 m2. The functions are grouped into blocks, but the different user groups meet at various places in the building, a concept that is defined by the architectural firm OMA as a vertical city. De Rotterdam will be used daily by about 5,000 people and with a floor space index of 32 De Rotterdam forms the most densely built part of the Netherlands. |
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erasmus bridge
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The Erasmus Bridge (Dutch: Erasmusbrug) is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge in the centre of Rotterdam, connecting the north and south parts of this city, second largest in the Netherlands. The bridge was named after Desiderius Erasmus a.k.a. Erasmus of Rotterdam, a prominent Christian renaissance humanist.
The 802-metre-long (2,631 ft) bridge across the New Meuse was designed by Ben van Berkel and completed in 1996. The cable-stayed bridge section has a single 139-metre-high (456 ft) asymmetrical pale blue pylon with a prominent horizontal base, earning the bridge its nickname "The Swan". The southernmost span of the bridge has an 89-metre-long (292 ft) bascule bridge for ships that cannot pass under the bridge. The bascule bridge is the largest and heaviest in Western Europe and has the largest panel of its type in the world. After costing more than 165 million Euros to construct, the bridge was officially opened by Queen Beatrix on September 6, 1996. Shortly after the bridge opened to traffic in October 1996, it was discovered the bridge would swing under particularly strong wind conditions. To reduce the trembling, stronger shock dampers were installed. |
Gebouw Delftse Poort
Gebouw Delftse Poort (English: Delft Gate Building) is a twin-tower skyscraper complex. Tower I is 151.35 m (496.6 ft) with 41 storeys, and Tower II is 93 m (305 ft) 25 storeys. Until May 2009, Tower I was the tallest office tower in the Netherlands. Both towers are built over a 4-storey multifunctional podium which adjoins the Rotterdam central station. The entire complex has 28 elevators. The gross floor area in the complex is 106,000 square metres and the offices occupy 66,000 m2 (710,000 sq ft) .
The architect is Abe Bonnema It was constructed between 1989 and 1992. The cost of the construction was 240 million Dutch guilders, or about €110 million. Due to a metro tunnel running underneath the complex, advanced construction methods were required, allowing only a single underground floor to be built. Since the main user of the building is the Dutch Company 'Nationale-Nederlanden' (National-Netherlands) the building is also known as 'Nationale-Nederlanden building'. Nationale-Nederlanden is the local insurance branch of ING Insurance. |
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Het nieuwe Instituut
The idea of establishing a national architecture museum came about in 1912 when the Amsterdam architects’ association Architectura et Amicitia was obliged to rent an extra room in Hotel Parkzicht in Amsterdam to store its archive of drawings and models. Architect J.H.W. In 1915, A et A members suggested storing the collection at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam, and housing it in an independent museum at a later date. These ideas did not come to fruition, however.
In the 1980s, three cultural institutes collaborated to form the NAI. These were the Netherlands Architecture Documentation Centre (NDB), the Architecture Museum Foundation (SAM) and Stichting Wonen foundation. Following this, a controversy ensued between Amsterdam and Rotterdam as to where an architecture museum/institute would have to be based. Minister Brinkman opted for Rotterdam. Previous plans to set up the NAI in the vacant library at Botersloot were abandoned. The NAI found temporary accommodation in a building at Westersingel before the construction of a new building started. In 1988, a competition was held among six architects to find an architect for a new building. These were: Jo Coenen, Rem Koolhaas, Benthem Crouwel Architekten, Wim Quist, Luigi Snozzi and Ralph Erskine. Koolhaas’s design was the favourite among the specialist press and was also favoured by Riek Bakker, the director of Rotterdam’s Department of Urban Development. However, the NAI awarded Jo Coenen the commission, the decisive factors being the blending of the design into the surroundings and the references to the history of architecture. After an intensive period of renovation, the NAI opened its doors on 1 July 2011. The most salient part of the renovation was moving the entrance to the pond level. The restaurant was extended. An exhibition room and additional space for educational activities were also added. At the site of the original entrance is now the DoeDek, a hands-on area where visitors can experiment with Lego, large blocks and cut-outs. As the original building’s architect, Jo Coenen was also responsible for its renovation. |
Hoge Erasmus
Inntel hotels Rotterdam centre
As early as 1980 architects Tuns + Horsting conducted a feasibility study to create a residential building on the site. In 1986-89the building was build. It featured a hotel, a large Imax theater and exhibition space. In 2010 started and major remodeling in favor of a luxury five-star hotel with conference facilities and 200 rooms.
The building is 130 meters high and relatively narrow. Due to the presence of a seawall and quay constructions only a narrow strip was available for the foundation. The width of the building is obtained by steel cantilevers on either side of the concrete skeleton. The design has a square head design, which was influenced by the oblique lines from the location, thus creating an interesting play of forms. The facades emphasize both the individual components and the total. The whole building stands on a granite plinth and is lined with aluminum panels from 1.80 to 1.30 meters in different colors. |
Kop van Zuid
Kop van Zuid is a neighborhood of Rotterdam, located on the south bank of the Nieuwe Maas opposite the center of town. The district is relatively young (developt 1993-2010) and includes the Wilhelmina Pier as well as the V bounded by the Rose Street and railway line on one side and the Rotterdam-Dordrecht Hilledijk, Hill Street and Rijnhaven on the other.
The Kop van Zuid is built on old, abandoned port areas around the Binnenhaven, Entrepothaven, Spoorweghaven, Rijnhaven and the Wilhelmina Pier. These port sites and the Nieuwe Maas made for a large physical distance between the center and north of the Maas and southern Rotterdam. By converting this area into an urban area, and providing better infrastructure, planners sought to unite the northern and southern parts of the city. |
KPN Tower
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The Tower is an office building. It has a height of 96.5 meters and has 23 floors. Construction began in 1998 and lasted two years. It is the first high-rise building on the Wilhelmina Pier. It was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano.
On the facade of the building is a matrix of 896 green lights installed. This demonstration animations, mainly artistic expression and as event support in the Rotterdam conurbation, for example, during the World Day of the annual marathon in Rotterdam. The concept and design of the wall light is designed by Henri Ritzen (Studio Dumbar). The façade of the building leans six degrees forward. |
Market Hall
The Market Hall (Dutch: Markthal or Koopboog) is a residential- and office building with a market hall underneath. The building was opened on October 1, 2014, by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. Besides the large market hall, the complex houses 228 apartments, 4600 m2 retail space, 1600 m2 horeca and an underground 4-story parking garage with a capacity of 1200+ cars.
The Market Hall was designed by architectural firm MVRDV. The grey nature stone building has an archwise structure like a horseshoe. The building has a glass facade on both sides, these are made up of smaller glass windows. The smaller windows are mostly squared and around 1485 millimeters wide. All of these are hung around a structure of steel cables, 34 metres high and 42 metres wide, which makes it the largest glass-window cable structure in Europe. Each facade has 26 vertical and 22 horizontal cables. |
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Millennium Tower
Millennium Tower is a 35-story, 130.8 m (429 ft) skyscraper in Rotterdam, Netherlands design by WZMH Architects and AGS Architecten. It was completed in 2000. It is currently mixed use, containing hotel, apartments, offices and health studio.
The tower was originally designed to be built with hollow-core slabs, but close to building start the design was changed to incorporate the BubbleDeck system. This was the first time this new method was in use in the Netherlands, and also the first major project worldwide to incorporate this technique. In spite of the late design change, the project was finished before time, due to a reduction in the erection cycles from 10 to 4 days per level, and a reduction in crane lift by app 50 percent. |
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
The museum was established in 1849[1] as Museum Boymans with the collection of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1767–1847). The painter and art dealer, Arie Johannes Lamme, was named the museum's first Director. Much of the museum's original collection was destroyed in a fire in 1864.
The collection of businessman Daniël George van Beuningen (1877–1955) was added in 1958, at which point the museum acquired the name Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. The spelling was changed to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in 1996. The museum has a diverse collection ranging from medieval to contemporary art, with somewhat of a focus on Dutch art. Much of the collection came to the museum through the two private collections mentioned above, but many others have contributed throughout the years. Among the best-known artists that are exhibited in the permanent exhibition of the museum are Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, Vincent van Gogh, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Cézanne, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Mark Rothko, Edvard Munch and Willem de Kooning. The collection also includes one of the richest assembly of works on paper (etchings, drawings, lithographs, etc.) in the world from the Middle Ages to the present times. |
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Red Apple
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The Red Apple is a 40-storey, 124 m (407 ft) residential skyscraper designed by KCAP Architects & Planners and Jan des Bouvrie. The building was topped out in 2008, completed in 2009, and features 121 units, and a 338-space multi-storey car park. The Kopblok is a 53 m (174 ft) building that has an additional 79 apartment units and offices. The ground floor is designed for shops and restaurants. The entire complex has an open fiber network.
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Remonstrantse Kerk
The Remonstrantse Church got a new sober eclectic building in 1897 designed by Henti Evers and Jacobus Pieter Stok Wzn.. On the elongate site is a plan fitted into the shape of a Greek cross with a truncated arm. The main entrance is located on the canal side; The bell tower stands on the corner. The main church space has high graphics and a wooden cover. Inside, Art Nouveau elements such as stained-glass windows of the L. Contini, lamps and find cast-iron columns. Particularly noteworthy are also the organ in late romantic tradition, the restored Committee Room and the seventeenth-century vestry. The building is now Arminius, a stage for art, culture and debate established. It is named after Jacobus Arminius, the founder of the Arminian thought, which is visible in the central medallion in the mosaic in the side.
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Rotterdam Centraal railway station
Rotterdam Centraal is the main railway station of the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The station received an average of 110,000 passengers daily in 2007. The current station building was Officially opened in March 2014.
In June 2004 gave ProRail and the Rotterdam Municipality the contract to CS Team, a cooperation between Benthem Crouwel Architects, Meyer & Van Schooten, and West 8 to work out the plans for a design for the new central train station. Delft Gate station was badly damaged by bombing in the Rotterdam Blitz. The new central station was rebuilt just westwards of the site. Its original building was designed by architect Sybold of Ravesteyn and was completed on 13 March 1957 Officially opened on 21 May. The mainline station nowadays HAS seven island platforms with platform thirteen tracks. There are three tracks without platform (tracks 2, 5 and 10). The 1957 station building was closed in 2007 and demolished in the Following year to make way for a new station-which was completed and opened in 2014. A total reconstruction of the station and its surroundings started in 2004 to cope with an increase increasing number of trains, for example the high-speed train between Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris, and to accommodate for light rail. Further More, the Existing station Especially the passenger tunnel ook Became too small to handle the growing number of passengers. Traveler numbers were projected to be 320,000 per day in 2025. To cope with this increasement, a new station was be necessary. |
santa claus
Santa Claus, also known as Gnome Buttplug is a picture of Paul McCarthy. The sculpture was created in 2001 by the American artist commissioned by Sculpture International for a place in town.
The picture presents for Santa holding a Christmas tree in his hands. Rotterdam council Santa Claus purchased the sculpture. This led to much opposition, many people had the image of a sexual nature, which soon got his nickname. On September 22 2005, the image put down as a compromise in the courtyard of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, where four days later was revealed by Mayor Opstelten. Since the museum's courtyard was growing, the sculpture was placed on the museum's doorstep on August 21, 2008. In early 2008 the municipality of Rotterdam had planned to move the image to the Van Oldenbarneveltplaats at the head of the "flattering". This plan called for a lot of resistance in a number of businesses around the square. Eventually it was decided in June 2008 to the image on the Eendrachtsplein (as part of Westersingel Sculpture Route) place, this after intense lobbying by the shopkeepers association of Shortcuts. The image is on November 28, 2008 carried by a colorful procession to the Eendrachtsplein and placed there. |
Westersingel
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The Westersingel is a famous canal in Rotterdam on the border of downtown and the neighborhoods Old West and Dijkzigt. The street on the west side of the canal is also called Westersingel.
Westersingel was dug as part of the Water of W.N. Rose. The buildings of the Westersingel happened with mansions between 1870 and 1900. Between the West and the New Binnenweg Kruiskade a closed row of houses was realized. South of the New Binnenweg villas were built. Westersingel was not affected by the bombing of Rotterdam. Here was Paul's Church, together with the conference center Calypso and the Holiday Inn was demolished in May 2006 to make way for new construction. In 2000, the area around the canal was refurbished. The Westersingel is part of the Cultural Axis in Rotterdam. The mansions often are not residential any more. |
Wilhelminaplein
Wilhelmina Square is an underground subway station-which lies south of the Meuse river. It is part of Rotterdam Metro lines D and E.
The station was opened on June 4, 1997 and was designed by Zwarts & Jansma Architects Wilhelminaplein station was opened as a new station of the North-South Line-which itself was already opened in 1968. Because the station was constructed at the location where the subway tunnel is going up on its way to the surface, the platforms, like the rest of the station, are not Entirely horizontal. An entrance was opened in 2005 for visitors to the New Luxor Theatre, All which leads passengers directly to the other side of the busy intersection of Wilhelmina square and Posthumalaan by moving walkways. |
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witte huis
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The Witte Huis (White House) is a building and National Heritage Site in Rotterdam, built in 1898 in the Art Nouveau style. The building is 43 m (141 ft) tall, with 10 floors. It was also the first hoogbouw (literally: high-rise building) in Europe. The building is listed as a Rijksmonument.
The architect Willem Molenbroek designed the 10-storey building, at the time an unprecedented height in Europe. The site at Wijnhaven 3 is just 1 m above sea-level and skeptics claimed that the soft soil of Rotterdam would be unable to adequately support the building, so before construction could properly begin, 1000 piles were driven into the ground to support the building's weight. The building is constructed from iron and steel and concrete, and includes two thick interior walls which increase the building's strength. Unlike many other contemporary buildings of the time, wood was not a significant construction material due to the fear of fire. The building cost 127,900 Dutch guilders. It was also one of the few buildings in central Rotterdam to survive the German bombing campaigns of World War II. |
world port center
World Port Centre is a 33-storey, 123.1 m (404 ft) skyscraper. The tower was commissioned by ING Real Estate Development. The building costs amounted to approximately NLG100 million. The Port of Rotterdam Authority is the main occupant of the WPC, using floors 2 to 19. Floors 25 to 28 are rented to Eneco Energie, floors 29 to 32 are built as conference areas and are commercially leased to Regus. The grounds also cover the Argentine steak-restaurant Gaucho's.
As the building stands at the far point of the Wilhelmina pier it is built on, there is an excellent view of the surrounding harbours and city from the higher floors. The building is also an emergency centre, designed to deal with potential catastrophes in the port area and act as a coordination centre. Sir Norman Foster designed the 32-storey building. In 1992 he designed the master plan of the entire Wilhelminapier, where the World Port Centre is standing. |