Het Vrije Volk office building (Slaakhuys)
Former office building of the newspaper Het Vrije Volk, the Slaakhuys at the Slaak Rotterdam
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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.
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Thalia Theater
A Jew from Poland, Abraham Tuschinski (1886‒1942) departed for the United States, but only got as far as Rotterdam. In 1911 he opened his first cinema, Thalia, on Coolvest.
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Groenendaal Housing
The Groenendaal Housing project illustrate well the confrontation between two styles of architecture that dominated the post-war period in the Netherlands.
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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.
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Lijnbaan apartment buildings
The layout of the Lijnbaan, which separates shops and apartments, paved the way for a new concept of urban living: high-rise blocks arranged around green courts.
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Galeries Modernes opens
On 8 November 1956 the new building of Galeries Modernes was officially opened.
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Hoogstraat shops
The Hoogstraat Shops were three retail buildings opened one after another in quick succession on Hoogstraat.
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Groothandelsgebouw
The Groothandelsgebouw is the symbol of the reconstruction of Rotterdam.
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Lijnbaan shopping precinct
In the post-war years the Lijnbaan marked a revolution in urban design. Instead of shops with housing above along both sides of a street of traffic, such as Hoogstraat, the Lijnbaan shops lined pedestrian promenades.
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First pile of Wereldhaven
During a speech by Johan Ringers on 15 April 1941 the first pile went into the ground for the Wereldhaven housing complex.
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Minervahuis
The Minerva House on Meent is part of a block largely completed during the period of reconstruction.
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