Hoogkwartier

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.

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

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

Savoy Hotel

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

Buildings

Hoogkwartier

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

Neighborhoods

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’.

Stories