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OFFICE BUILDING MAASTOREN

DAM & PARTNERS, 2005-2010, Wilhelminakade 1, Rotterdam

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Dam & Partners

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Diederik Dam

ASSISTING ARCHITECT:
Odile Decq

BUILDING TYPE:
Office buildings


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High-Rise Zone Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the pre-eminent Dutch city when it comes to high-rise, beginning with https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/188" class="inline_link">Het Witte Huis, the country's first skyscraper. High-rise was made possible by such technological advances as the lift (1854) and the use of steel and reinforced concrete. Of course, taller buildings had been erected before, such as the 64 metre tall tower of the https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/24" class="inline_link">St. Laurenskerk. The record then passed in 1931 to the https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/299" class="inline_link">electricity board building (64 m.), then to the https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/206" class="inline_link">Medical Faculty (114 m.) and the headquarters of https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/1351" class="inline_link">Nationale-Nederlanden (151 m.), to the https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/1996" class="inline_link">Maastoren, with 165 metres the tallest building in the Netherlands.
The Maastoren at https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/319" class="inline_link">Kop van Zuid is commissioned by Deloitte, an accounting and special services firm, the tower has been the target of local protest, mainly levelled at the planned car park occupying its lowest ten storeys. Its two slabs of 108 and 161 metres high are clad with a light-grey aluminium sheathing, so that the building reflects the sky.