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Portlantis is a new Rotterdam visitor centre connecting guests with its rich maritime spirit
Rotterdam visitor centre Portlantis is an immersive experience exploring the rich history of Europe’s largest port; we preview what the building has to offer and the story behind its playfully stacked design
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Inside the Design Biennale Rotterdam 2025: how the Dutch underdog became a design capital
Until 2 March 2025, Rotterdam transforms into a citywide showcase, hosting exhibitions and conferences exploring forward-thinking design. We catch up with the biennale’s co-founders to discuss the city’s spirit of innovation
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Rotterdam’s urban rethink makes it the city of 2025
We travel to Rotterdam, honoured in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025, and look at the urban action the Dutch city is taking to future-proof its environment for people and nature
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: celebrating architectural projects that restore, rebalance and renew
As we welcome 2025, the Wallpaper* Architecture Awards look back, and to the future, on how our attitudes change; and celebrate how nature, wellbeing and sustainability take centre stage
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A peek inside the Nederlands Fotomuseum as it prepares for its 2025 opening
The home for the Nederlands Fotomuseum, set on the Rotterdam waterfront, is one step closer to its 2025 opening
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Kunlé Adeyemi’s water cities and visions of future living at Het Nieuwe Instituut
‘Water Cities Rotterdam. By Kunlé Adeyemi’ opens at Het Nieuwe Instituut in The Netherlands, offering visions of future living
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Rotterdam house is a sustainable home with a defining timber roof
Terphouse is a green Rotterdam house by Studio AAAN, featuring a distinctive low-slung, timber roof
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'Hella Jongerius - Misfit', Rotterdam
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Object Rotterdam 2010 highlights
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Winning big: Rotor founder scoops the 2015 Maaskant Prize
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4th International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam
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Concrete plans: inside KAAN Architecten’s Rotterdam offices
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International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2014: exploring the relationship between city and nature
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International Architecture Biennale 2012, Rotterdam
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The Chabot Museum, Rotterdam
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The prejudices and politics behind the hoodie
Lou Stoppard examines the role of the hooded cotton jersey zip-up as a socio-political carrier in a new exhibition at the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam
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Okay Studio exhibition at Galerie Vivid, Rotterdam
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De Bakkerswinkel — Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Landmark renovation projects and collective regeneration in Rotterdam
While Rotterdam is known for radical architecture and forward-thinking city planning, architects are finding ways to celebrate the city’s history too. Several landmark renovation projects have launched this year, and there’s an ever-growing interest in collective regeneration of city’s 20th century residential fabric led by a new generation of ambitious emerging architects
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Lightweeds: nature and technology become one in Simon Heijdens’ installation
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Floating architecture is a booming business, thanks to Dutch designers
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Rem Koolhaas on OMA’s Rotterdam beginnings, Boompjes and Amex
We caught up with Rem Koolhaas to discuss OMA's beginnings, setting up shop in Rotterdam, and his new design for the Amex Centurion ‘Art Card', which was inspired by Boompjes, OMA's very first commission in the Dutch port city in the early 1980s
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’Like Pastoe: 100 years of Design Innovation’ at Kunsthal Rotterdam
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Urbannerdam housing project, Rotterdam
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View from the top: Rotterdam Rooftop Walk rises 30m above the city
The temporary installation, a collaboration with architects MVRDV, offers visitors a new perspective of Rotterdam
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Kunlé Adeyemi on climate change, architecture and the power of water
Design Emergency began as an Instagram Live series during the Covid-19 pandemic and is now becoming a wake-up call to the world, and compelling evidence of the power of design to effect radical and far-reaching change. Co-founders Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn took over the October 2020 issue of Wallpaper* – available to download free here – to present stories of design’s new purpose and promise. Here, Paola Antonelli talks to architect Kunlé Adeyemi
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Philippe Parreno combines 20 years of footage to create ‘film of films, a seance of cinema’
The French artist premieres a new feature-length film at the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam, reflecting two decades of filmmaking in the eye of the international art world
