180 Steps in Rotterdam, Central Station Stairs

180 Steps

A look back at The Stairs in Rotterdam by MVRDV, Architects. The scaffolding structure, assembled by Dutch Steigers, took visitors 29 metres up to the roof top of the Groot Handelsgebouw. The structure commemorated 75 years of the Dutch city’s reconstruction.

Erasmus MC Rotterdam: University Medical Center

Erasmus MC Rotterdam building

The most prestigious and largest hospital in The Netherlands, the Erasmus MC (Rotterdam) designed by EGM architects, receives a BNA award in category ‘Stimulating environments’: new university medical centre in Netherlands

Timmerhuis in Rotterdam Building by OMA

Timmerhuis in Rotterdam

Design: OMA, architects. Shortlisting for major new Dutch building: it accommodates municipal services, offices and residential units. The modular building gradually steps back into two irregular peaks.

Market Hall in Rotterdam Building by MVRDV

Market Hall in Rotterdam

Design: MVRDV, Architects – new photos. The first covered food-market of the Netherlands and a new urban typology combining living with shopping. The walls and roof are an arch of 228 apartments. Inside the arch is the art work ‘Cornucopia’, the largest art piece in the Netherlands.

De Rotterdam Building, Wilhelminapier Towers

De Rotterdam

De Rotterdam, The Netherlands Design: OMA. This mixed-use, 160,000sqm slab-tower conceived as a ‘vertical city’ on the River Maas, is complete. The building is named after one of the original ships on the Holland America Line, which until the late 1970s transported thousands of emigrating for New York from the adjacent Wilhelmina Pier.

Lijnbaan in Rotterdam, Dutch Shopping Area

Lijnbaan in Rotterdam

Grand opening of the Lijnbaan in Rotterdam: first phase of the renovation of the world-famous reconstruction monument is finished. The renovation project was designed by Mei architects and planners.

New Erasmus MC Building in Rotterdam

New Erasmus MC Building in Rotterdam

New Erasmus MC Building design by EGM architects, The Netherlands: Dutch university medical centre of the 21st century, at Doctor Molewaterplein 40, home every day to 13,500 staff, 4,500 students and thousands of patients.

CityHub Rotterdam, Witte de Withstraat

CityHub Rotterdam

Witte de Withstraat, one of Rotterdam’s liveliest and well-known streets, has a new resident. CityHub have modified three existing buildings on the street to create the second of their new, fresh and interactive hotels for the digital native.

Book Mountain Library: Spijkenisse Bibliotheek

Book Mountain Rotterdam Spijkenisse Bibliotheek

Book Mountain, Spijkenisse Bibliotheek, Rotterdam – design by MVRDV, Architects – Dutch library building – Book Mountain Rotterdam, Spijkenissse Library interior & exterior photos + info

Weenapoint complex Rotterdam

Weenapoint Complex in Rotterdam

The Weenapoint complex, designed by MVRDV Architects, will consist of approximately 17,000 sqm of offices, a transparent commercial plinth and between 200 to 300 apartments. Completion is set for mid-2022.

Project Maximaal, Rotterdam Childcare

Project Maximaal Rotterdam Childcare Centre building

Simone Drost Architecture wins the German Design Award 2018 Architecture category for Project Maximaal in Rotterdam: a childcare centre for children with mental disabilities in the ages of 0 to 20 years.