From Beurs metro station to City Hall

About the route

In no other period was so much built in Rotterdam as in the so-called Post65 era, the period between 1965 and 1990. The city centre was given mirrored towers, brutalist office blocks and experimental residential areas such as the Cube Houses. Rotterdam faced gigantic construction tasks and initially tackled them strictly with concrete, glass and steel in a no-nonsense appearance. These new ambitions and increases in scale also included large infrastructure projects, such as roads, bridges and railways, with which Rotterdam showed itself ready for the future. In the field of art, a critical counter-movement arose in which artists translated the businesslike visual language of architecture into swinging abstract art, pop art with humour and more colour.

BKOR and SIR, in collaboration with Bureau Monumenten en Cultuurhistorie (Municipality of Rotterdam), have developed a route along 20 works of art and 19 buildings that largely date from the Post65 period. Only the selected works of art are included in this online version on our website. This route takes you criss-cross along this heritage via 'back sides' of the city centre, where striking Post65 buildings and art meet other time layers, via the cosy paths that people longed for so much in that big, draughty city in the seventies.

Have fun with our Rotterdam Art Route, from Beurs metro station to City Hall!