World Port Centre is a 33-

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, skyscraper in

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Infrastructure

Designer

Sir Norman Foster Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank (born 1 June 1935) is an English architect. Closely associated with the development of high-tech architecture, Lord Foster is recognised as a key figure in British modernist architecture. His ...

designed the 32-storey building. This British architect gained international fame with his designs for the London

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, the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong, the extension of the

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in Berlin and the

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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

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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

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and cruise ship

References

{{Authority control Office buildings completed in 2001 Foster and Partners buildings Skyscraper office buildings in Rotterdam 2001 establishments in the Netherlands