The Delftsche Poort
Rotterdam, Netherlands

HEIGHT: 151m
FLOORS: 42 floors
COMPLETION: 1991
ARCHITECT: ?

http://home.hetnet.nl/~tadebruijn/rotterdam/completed/delftsepoort/dpbw1.jpg

http://home.hetnet.nl/~tadebruijn/rotterdam/completed/delftsepoort/dpbw2.jpg

http://home.hetnet.nl/~tadebruijn/rotterdam/completed/delftsepoort/dpbw3.jpg

http://home.hetnet.nl/~tadebruijn/rotterdam/completed/delftsepoort/dpbw7.jpg

7.5/10

Simple and nice. Its 'friendly' to its environment by reflecting them. Nice facade..reminds me of John Hancock in Boston.

nice and simple structure...7/10

lovely glass box
8/10

3 reactions and only 4 votes?

8,5 because it's the highest dutch skyscraper

I had the pleasure of seeing this one in real life. Very very reflective. Simple design and very rectangular :). Rectangles are plane to me. 7.5/10

love the reflective glass :D

9/10. Awesome! I love glass towers. This is a box, perhaps it could have some curves, but none the less an impressive building.

I give it 7.5/10, I love reflective glass too, not the most interesting design though.

Glassy, classy, simple and sleek. I like it 8.5/10

I need more pics...

here more pics:

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2001/05/108154.jpg


http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2002/06/152137.jpg


http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2002/04/146772.jpg

Aha! I knew it! I DO like this building. This guy I know from the SimCity cirlces (SwedenAC or SAC) made a vague replica of this building one time (or perhaps something that was just inspired by this one), and it is one of my favorite buildings in the game.

It obviously has just a simple glass facade, but I like it. It works.

8.0/10

8/10..r'dam skyscrapers are interesting

terrible cladding ! but thin and elegant. 5/10

9/10 :)

It is one of my favourite Dutch Skyscraper. I am lucky to see it very often. It reflex good the sky. It is a simple box but i like simple things.

I like it. A bit boxy though. 7/10

Just a simple glassy box without any inspiration at all :(
There are much better buildings in Rotterdam

i like glass and i like blue. . . that last pic is the best angle IMO . . 7/10

Too simple. But also high and with nice elevation.
6.5

clean and simple 8

very nice building and indeed nice but simple designed just overall an good looking building! 8.5

Im a fan of blue glass and even though i dont like the design, i give this a 8

6/10 bland unimpressive unoutstanding box made of mirrors. i usually like boxes... but not this one...

6/10

boring design

I like the glass building
9/10

Clean building 9

I like it... 8.5

I love this design.A real nice glass box!And offcourse dutch talles!Hell yeah 8.5/10

8/10 Nice use of geometry and reflective facade makes it look like part of the sky.

just a plain glass box. the building is slender due to the dutch regulations in which every office room has to have daylight entrance.
This regulation however adds a strickt frame for the design of a tower which therefor can not be too wide and is thus limited in it's height.

Simple & Sleek. 7.5/10

Well, it's suitable and works for the spot I suppose. At least it's all glass glazing helps diminish it's otherwise plain presence and help it blend in. I can't say I don't like it, though. 7.0

The is the representitive of the European International style Architecture for skyscrapers......truely original.....8/10

simple but elegant! 7,5/10

8.5/10

10/10

I like this kind of boxy scrapers. And it's Hollands tallest.(not for long anymore!).

:) 9 I LIKE THE GLASS:)

9.5/10 :)

The sky rflected in the building......awesome

7.5/10

Maybe some more pics will help some people appreciate this building:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings/138.jpg

http://www.skylinerotterdam.info/gebouwen/fotos/g_0289.jpg

http://www.skylinerotterdam.info/gebouwen/fotos/g_0276.jpg

The old Delftsche Poort (Thanks to the Germans bombed in the second World War. Just like the rest of the city center...):

http://www.engelfriet.net/Alie/Hans/delfstepoort1860.jpg

Modern version of the old one:

http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl/~ons_rotterdam/nl_pictures/OR_1999_4.jpg

8/10


Nice tower

8/10

Hyper-unspectacular design by an evidently tightassed Dutch architect.....Living in Rotterdam myself, I see this one all too often and its boringness is such that it's already quite an effort to let one's thoughts go over this "creation" .

4/10

I like this one beacause it is very simple and bold. Even when you see it every day.

9/10

6/10

Tall, but completely soulless.

5/10

8/10 Nice box and glass

Here are some better pics though.

http://207.44.228.232/images/B00/1.jpg

http://207.44.228.232/images/B00/84.jpg

http://207.44.228.232/images/B00/258.jpg

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/506/4201-Delftse_Poort.jpg

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/506/4204-Delftse_Poort.jpg

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/506/4203-Delftse_Poort.jpg

10 without any doubt the most impressive building in rotterdam. :cheers:

More pics:

http://img86.echo.cx/img86/8263/p5180037a0ys.jpg

http://img86.echo.cx/img86/2083/p5180006a6jk.jpg

8/10

lovely, 8

Very simple but really nice ;) 8/10

8/10

8,5/10

8/10, because it's air reflection and because it's the tallest one of the netherlands

7/10. Simple and nice.

Nice 8.5

9/10

Nice but simple extructure 6,5/10

7/10

10/10 one of my favorites :)

Simple and elegant. 9/10

Best possible way of use reflecting glass. :) 8,5/10

The facade looks a bit boring. But ihe building looks nice 8/10

7/10

average. 7.5/10

7/10.

This is the best tower in my country 9/10

7/10

8,5/10

Love this tower, It's a real landmark for many years now

9/10

One of my favourite European skyscrapers. Very elegant: 9,5/10

9/10 :)

Nice tower. 8.5/10

Superb, especially because it is a big 'glass structure'

8/10

8/10

i have seen it last month, and its so great, nice clad' 8/10

7/10
Like the shape. Not sure about what I don't like; impossible to count its stores or the overload of mirrorglass. Maybe the combination of these

7/10

8/10

7.5/10

great tower 8.5/10

Modell : 10
Size : 9
Colour : 8.5
Height : 8.5

9 but i say 9.5

Just a nice box :) 8/10

This is what I'm talking about - 10/10

9. sleek and nice!

9/10 very high nice modern looking.

7.5/10

great!! i love glasses box :)

9,5/10

6/10... as from what I can see in the 2 pics the tower is too boxy. Definitely some more pics would be appreciated. :cheers:

10/10 :nocrook:
One of my favorites in Rotterdam!!

looks very elegant

7.5/10

10/10

7.5/10

9/10

Very nice tower !!

7/10

9. Very good building. Regards.

9/10

10/10

voted 7/10

9/10

8/10

7/10

8,5

8/10

7/10

View from the construction site of Rotterdam central station:
http://i55.tinypic.com/2mxgao7.jpg

http://i55.tinypic.com/2ihuryc.jpg

2 somewhat older pics:
http://i52.tinypic.com/2lnbzg4.jpg

http://i51.tinypic.com/262b3pe.jpg

classic beauty, even though it has the outlook of a certain era, it will remain an all-time beauty. 9,5.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4229/img0582qd.jpg

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/8233/img0584yl.jpg

http://img858.imageshack.us/img858/5104/img1662.jpg

7/10

8/10

One of NL's better towers... 8,5

8/10 And for me that's pretty high.

Classic and glassy
7/10

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8/10

8/10