Cubic houses
It’s an entire street of square buildings turned 45 degrees and set with one of their corners onto regular single-story houses. They look incredibly funny. The Danish architect Pit Blom came up with this architectural experiment. He wanted the lower floors of such a street to house kindergartens, shops, schools, and cafés, while the cubes would contain living spaces. Each cube is three stories tall: downstairs there’s a living room with windows facing the asphalt; on the second level-bedrooms and bathrooms; and on the third floor-a small pyramidal room that can be adapted as a solarium, a children’s room, a mini observatory, or a winter garden. In one of the cube houses, they created a special Show Cube museum, where-using various photos, videos, and 3D panels-you can understand what it’s like to live in a cube-shaped home.
Erasmus Bridge
The Erasmus Bridge is a symbol of the city on the River Nieuwe Maas. It was opened relatively recently- in 1996. Its length is 802 meters. It’s also the bridge that Jackie Chan ran across from his pursuers in the film “Who Am I?”. And it’s one of the thinnest bridges of all-only 2 meters thick. The bridge has a very interesting asphalt surface that shimmers in the dark.
Euromast
This tall structure, 185 meters high, is the number one place you should see and visit in Rotterdam. Inside the tower there is a restaurant and a hotel with two VIP rooms, and outside there is the “Eagle’s Nest” observation deck (at a height of 96 meters). From the observation deck, an “euroscoop” departs-a special cabin with transparent walls and floor hatches that rises upward and, at the same time, rotates around its axis, showing you all of Rotterdam.
