Last weekend, during the Motel Mozaïque festival, Archi-guides gave tours over the rooftops of Rotterdam. Three groups started their tours simultaneously from Schouwburgplein. Our guide took us to the roof of a partially empty office building at Kruiskade, a rooftop kindergarden in the main shopping area and the top of the Kruisplein dwellings. At night, the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam organized a rooftop screening at Delftseplein.

Kruiskade

View over stripped office tower at the Coolsingel

View over the Lijnbaan shopping area and apartment blocks – a modernist monument, designed in the 1950’s by Van den Broek and Bakema

View over the Kop van Zuid – an port reuse project. Under construction, the Rotterdam Building, designed by OMA.

View over the old West of Rotterdam, with at the horizon the Erasmus medical center and Euromast.

Eye contact with another group of rooftop visitors