When Holland America Line (HAL) concentrated its activity on Wilhelminapier after the Second World War, there was a need for a central building containing workshops and storage spaces.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church and residential building with stores have been designed by the same architects Vermeer and Van Herwaarden, almost as an complex.
In 1949 a tall residential buidling designed by architect Van Tijen arises at the Zuidplein. Each floor has two 2-room flats with a loggia and six 3-room flats. The concrete shell was completed ‘in the American manner’: from top to bottom..
The Company of Grain Elevating (GEM, Graan Elevator Maatschappij) decides to build extra office space near the silo in 1963. Architect of the little building above the water is Herman Haan.
Litlle famous although local monument the Dordtselaanflat has been designed by Van Embden & Van Andel. Together with the low-rise parts they form an ensemble surrounding a community garden. The high-rise has been is several movies.
Het Gele Gebouw, eigenlijk gebouw de Vijverhof geheten, werd in 1969 voor stuwadoorsbedrijf Hanno & Co gebouwd. Het werd ontworpen door Kolpa jr. met een kunstwerk van Loekie Metz. Het gebouw wordt tegenwoordig bevolkt door (creatieve) ondernemers, de zeefdrukclub Meshprint en uitgaansgelegenheid MONO.
