The World Trade Center Rotterdam (WTC Rotterdam) is located on Coolsingel, Beursplein, Rode Zand and Meent in the center of the city.It is a business center in Rotterdam with approximately 200 offices and various facilities such as a conference center.The main building is 93 meters high.World Trade Center Rotterdam has the status of a national monument.
The history of WTC Rotterdam (until 2015 Beurs-World Trade Center) goes back to 1598, the year in which the first Rotterdam Stock Exchange was founded.The set-up of this Fair turned out to be extremely successful.Lack of space led to the foundation of larger stock exchange buildings.For example, in 1635 the stock exchange building De Beurs was established on the Noordblaak near the Gapersbrug.When that was found to be too small, De Beurs aan het Westnieuwland, designed by Adriaen van der Werff, was built in 1736.It remained in use until 1940.
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View over the Green Copper Roof of the World Trade Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The low-rise building of the current World Trade Center was designed as a multifunctional exhibition complex by architect J.F. Staal and was built between 1936 and 1940. During the bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, it received a number of hits, but the damage could be repaired fairly quickly. It was reopened in 1941. This building not only contained trade fairs and the Rotterdam Chamber of Commerce, but also shops, meeting rooms, a bar and offices. Among other things, the Rotterdam auction house organized real estate auctions here during this period, the current Vendu Rotterdam. During the great Razzia of Rotterdam, 10 and 11 November 1944, the building served as one of the assembly points where the German occupier had herded some of the 50,000 arrested Rotterdammers for transport to Germany to be used as forced labourers. Sixteen men escaped the horrors by hiding in the basement, in the boiler room, of the building. A plaque has been placed on site (not publicly accessible).
World Trade Center à Rotterdam, Pays-Bas
WTC Rotterdam during the Rooftop Walk 2022 (The Netherlands)
In 1973 the low-rise building was provided with an extra floor.The architect of this extension is Arthur Staal, the son of J.F.Steel.The catering facility in the complex is named after both architects.In 1984 a start was made on the construction of a new office tower in the middle of the existing low-rise building.The green elliptical tower, designed by Rob van Erk and Ab Veerbeek, was completed in 1986.Queen Beatrix reopened the complex under the name Beurs-World Trade Center.Until 2014, it was managed and operated by Beurs Rotterdam N.V. At the end of 2014, Bouwinvest Dutch Institutional Office Fund became the owner.He renamed the complex as World Trade Center Rotterdam.
Rooftop Structure of the WTC Rotterdam which features 21,000 Round Windows
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