Post-war reconstruction Community Rotterdam

Bemanning van de stoomboot in de Blekerstraat

• Stories

Surgeon in Meent’s post-war architecture

Robin von Weiler talks about how he got involved in Meent and his passion for the street he calls an open-air museum of post-war reconstruction architecture.

• Stories

No time to dwell on the past

The Van Zijps lived through the reconstruction of Rotterdam, and also through its bombardment. After the war the built up their lives again quickly.

• Stories

Great things endure

Joost Prins and Tjeerd Hendriks explain their plan to restore the architecture of Maaskant’s multi-tenant building and breathe new life into the landmark.

• Stories

Wereldhaven

The only project of Rotterdam’s reconstruction to be built during the war was Wereldhaven.

• Neighborhoods
• Buildings

Shop and enjoy in the Twaalfprovinciënhuis

With a sense of bravura similar to the completion of the Market Hall in October 2014, the Twaalfprovinciënhuis shopping centre opened in 1955.

• Buildings

Ben Maltha Garage / Sint Lucia Female Teacher Training College

In 1958 a remarkable and unusual combination on a remarkable and unusual site, right behind Lijnbaan opens. Garage Ben Maltha is topped by a catholic teacher training college St. Lucia. The building has its main facade and entrance onto a service street.

• Buildings
• National Monuments

Warenhuis Ter Meulen/Wassen/Van Vorst

In 1951 the firms Ter Meulen, Wassen and Van Vorst moved into a building with a facade almost 100 metres in length at the Binnenwegplein. The three collaborating shops had been housed in the Dijkzigt temporary retail complex. In the new building three sections beneath one roof will be separated by removable glazed partitions.

• Buildings