Hoogkwartier

Name: Rinus van Dam
Price range: $$$

Hoogkwartier is the triangle between Mariniersweg, Goudsesingel, Oostplein and Burgemeester van Walsumweg. The Hoogkwartier is quietly and conveniently located on the eastern edge of Rotterdam's city center.

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.

Groenendaal Housing

The Groenendaal Housing project illustrate well the confrontation between two styles of architecture that dominated the post-war period in the Netherlands.

Institution for the Blind

The ‘Work Institution for the Blind People in Need’ was a society set up in 1851.

Goudsesingel Industrial Building

The architects Hugh Maaskant and Willem van Tijen built in post-war Rotterdam the Industrial Building at the Goudsesingel.

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.

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.

Hoogkwartier

Hoogkwartier is the neighbourhood around the second stretch of Hoogstraat, from Mariniersweg to Oostplein.

Savoy Hotel

The Savoy Hotel on the corner of Hoogstraat and Kipstraat was an initiative from Wereldhaven.