The Architecture of Rotterdam
Rotterdam is an excellent city break or day trip from the popular Europe destination of Amsterdam. The city is Holland’s port, one of the largest ports in Europe. I love walking along the river and exploring the many shops and little cafes. But more importantly,it’s also home to some of Europe’s most bizarre architecture. I believe in this case, pictures are worth a thousand words.
As this photo by Gastev shows, all seems normal on the surface. It’s a bit unusual to see such an American-esque skyline in Holland, but anyway…
But then wow – from nnova’s photo you realise not all of the skyscrapers are “normal”….
Some day the Rotterdam Library (on the left here in Sasha’s photo) looks like a cruise liner. And I don’t need to explain which building is called the pencil building.
Ah, and then we end up at the Cube Houses – Silvain takes a good shot, but these are probably the most photographed piece of architecture in Rotterdam.
We’d be here all day if I pointed out all the unique, unusual, bizarre, strange, interesting, weird, scary, odd architecture. So, my Europe travel tip for architecture enthusiasts when Europe travel planning is schedule a stop in to see Rotterdam’s architecture.
