Expeditiehoven en straten
In opdracht van de dienst Stadsontwikkeling van de Gemeente Rotterdam heeft Platform Wederopbouw Rotterdam een verkenning van de Rotterdamse expeditiehoven en –straten uitgevoerd.
- General
Hoogkwartier
Goudsesingel Industrial Building
The architects Hugh Maaskant and Willem van Tijen built in post-war Rotterdam the Industrial Building at the Goudsesingel.
- Buildings
- National Monuments
Institution for the Blind
The ‘Work Institution for the Blind People in Need’ was a society set up in 1851.
- Buildings
- Municipal Monuments
Groenendaal Housing
The Groenendaal Housing project illustrate well the confrontation between two styles of architecture that dominated the post-war period in the Netherlands.
- Buildings
- Municipal Monuments
Bongers Tearoom (Pancake pavilion)
The Bongers Tearoom on Meent is such a familiar Rotterdam building that few people realise it was designed by an architect.
- Buildings
- Municipal Monuments
Traffic intersection
The reconstruction of Rotterdam was an excellent opportunity to tackle the flow of traffic in the centre.
- General
Savoy Hotel
The Savoy Hotel on the corner of Hoogstraat and Kipstraat was an initiative from Wereldhaven.
- Buildings
Living in the ‘pork chop neighbourhood’
Vesa Liukku has lived in Rotterdam for almost fifty years. When he first moved here, he thought Hoogkwartier was a fancy ‘pork chop neighbourhood’.
- Stories
A home on Hoogstraat, with a shower and everything!
The family of Jan van Dienst lived in a house to be proud of. The service dwelling had a shower and was located on Hoogstraat.
- Stories
Getting soaked in front of the Savoy
The Van Wijk brothers talk about the youth in the Hoogkwartier district. They built rafts to use on the big puddles that formed in old bomb craters.
- Stories
From the ‘rubble’ to the chrome
On the site now occupied by the Market Hall, the sons of Jan van Wingerden used to dig for treasure. The open tracts of city were called ‘the rubble’.
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