Rotterdam Architecture Month
Fred Ernst

Rotterdam Architecture Month

The Rotterdam Architecture Month is the largest architecture festival in the Netherlands, focused on the future of the city. The event is organised every June, choosing a new and appropriate site for the festival heart each year.

The next edition will take place in June 2024.

Last year, the MVRDV-designed pink Podium on top of Het Nieuwe Instituut was a great success. This summer, Rotterdam Architecture Month returned with another crowd pleaser: a floating festival heart in the Maashaven.

Floating festival heart in the Maashaven

This year’s theme for Rotterdam Architecture Month was Liquid City. Rotterdam, being a port city on two banks, is surrounded and saturated by water. The floating festival heart brought together complex challenges relating to water and climate in concrete urban solutions. The heart consisted of three huge floating barges creatively designed by Studio Marco Vermeulen. One platform had been transformed into a green park where visitors could relax and immerse themselves in architecture during events such as lectures, debates, and film screenings. The other platform offered urban sports activities such as freerunning and calisthenics in collaboration with renowned designer and freerunner Onur Eren. The three platforms were connected by a footbridge and offered a unique view over the Maashaven and the rest of the city, as well as demonstrated the potential of water. The Rotterdam Architecture Month festival heart provided an unforgettable experience for anyone interested in architecture, urban planning, and urban sports. The Rotterdam Architecture Month will return in June 2024.

The richness of Rotterdam rooftops

The richness of Rotterdam rooftops

In Rotterdam, you either do something properly or not at all. And when it comes to rooftops, you can rest assured that Rotterdam does it best! The city has a lot of roof space, so why leave it unused? To a Rotterdammer, an empty roof is like a blank canvas where your imagination is the limit. From greening and energy generation to recreation: even roofs offer room for innovation and experimentation. As a visitor and resident, you can be a part of it, not just an observer: experiment, learn and enjoy the ride!

Get inspired!

City of Architecture

The story of Rotterdam – its history, the bombing and the reconstruction – says a lot about the fertile conditions for flourishing architecture. After all, if nothing’s left, why not build on a grand and compelling scale? The courage that was and is shown – in design and the granting of commissions to architects – can be seen everywhere in Rotterdam. Read more…

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