Las Palmas, Rotterdam
This former warehouse building on
Wilhelminakade has been revivified and renovated. Built in 1953 to a design by
Van den Broek & Bakema, it spent several decades as a workshop building for
the Holland America Line. It is the only surviving witness on Wilhelmina Pier
of the period of post-war revolution in building and Rotterdam's rebirth as a city and for that
reason is of great cultural-historical and architectural value. A thorough
renovation of the existing cladding has reinstated its original ambience.
The fully restored Las Palmas is a mixed-use building of
cultural and commercial ends. It now houses the Nederlands Fotomuseum, a school
of new media and a large events hall along with an exclusive fish restaurant
and an array of companies. The building has been enlarged with a penthouse
housing the headquarters of OVG, a real estate developer.
Client
OBR
OntwikkelingsBedrijf Rotterdam and OVG Projectontwikkeling
Architect
Benthem Crouwel Architekten
Gross
floor area
21.350 m²
Start
design
2003
Start
construction
2006
Completion
2008
