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WILHELMINAPIER

DIVERSE ARCHITECTEN, 1987-2012, Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Diverse architecten

BUILDING TYPE:
Urban plans


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Housing Block Montevideo
World Port Center Rotterdam
Headquarters Holland-Amerika Lijn
Workshop Building Holland-Amerika Lijn (Las Palmas)
Office Building KPN Rotterdam (Belvédère)
Aankomsthal Holland-Amerika Lijn (Cruise Terminal)
Marine Simulator Centre
Theatre Luxor
Las Palmas (Workshop building H.A.L.)
Erasmus Bridge
Las Palmas (Workshop building H.A.L.)
Housing Block New Orleans

Originally this pier was almost exclusively used by the transatlantic shipping company Holland Amerika Lijn. Its https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/282" class="inline_link">headquarters have been refurbished as a hotel/restaurant. One of the first new buildings to join it is the https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/526" class="inline_link">Marine Simulator Centre designed by Sir Norman Foster, who also drew up the masterplan for Wilhelminapier. Foster went on to design the https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/1783" class="inline_link">World Port Center, the new headquarters of Rotterdam's port management corporation. Another foreign luminary, Renzo Piano, designed the https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/1784" class="inline_link">KPN Telecom office building at the foot of the https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/316" class="inline_link">Erasmus Bridge. Tall apartment buildings by Alvaro Siza (https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/2845" class="inline_link">New Orleans) and Cruz & Ortiz (San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia and Havana) are build on the south side of the pier alongside https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/1595" class="inline_link">Montevideo. In 2010 the 'Rotterdam' by OMA was started building.