World Port Centre is a 33-
storey, skyscraper in
Rotterdam
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Infrastructure
Designer
Sir Norman Foster
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designed the 32-storey building. This British architect gained international fame with his designs for the London
Stansted Airport
London Stansted Airport is a tertiary international airport serving London, England, United Kingdom. It is located near Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England, northeast of Central London.
London Stansted serves over 160 destinations acro ...
, the
Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong, the extension of the
Reichstag building in Berlin and the
Commerzbank Tower
Commerzbank Tower is a 56-story, skyscraper owned by Samsung of Korea since September 2016 in the banking district of Frankfurt, Germany. An antenna spire with a signal light on top gives the tower a total height of . It is the tallest bui ...
in Frankfurt. In 1992 he designed the master plan of the entire Wilhelminapier, where the World Port Centre is standing.
Builder
The tower was commissioned by
ING Real Estate Development. The building costs amounted to approximately
NLG100 million. The
Port of Rotterdam Authority is the main occupant of the WPC, using floors 2 to 19. Floors 25 to 28 are rented to
Eneco Energie, floors 29 to 32 are built as conference areas and are commercially leased to
Regus
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. The grounds also cover the Argentine steak-restaurant Gaucho's.
Features
As the building stands at the far point of the Wilhelmina pier it is built on, there is a view of the surrounding harbours and city from the higher floors. The building is also an emergency centre, designed to deal with potential catastrophes in the port area and act as a coordination centre.
Port of Rotterdam Authority - Communication and VTS
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Gallery
File:World Port Center in Rotterdam.jpg, World Port Centre
File:AIDAperla in Rotterdam - September 2019.jpg, World Port Center with De Rotterdam
De Rotterdam is a building on the Wilhelminapier in Rotterdam, designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1998. The complex is located between the KPN Tower and Rotterdam Cruise Terminal and was finalized at the end of 2013. On ...
and cruise ship
References
{{Tallest buildings in the Netherlands
Skyscrapers in Rotterdam
Office buildings completed in 2001
Foster and Partners buildings
Skyscraper office buildings in the Netherlands