Brick warehouses, a gatehouse from 1879 and glass towers stand along the harbor piers across the Maas from the city center.
What Kop van Zuid looks like
Kop van Zuid lies on the south bank of the Nieuwe Maas, facing the city center across the water. Brick warehouses and a gatehouse stand at the edge of the old harbor basins, and glass towers rise behind them on the Wilhelminapier.
The at Stieltjesstraat 38 is a four-story brick building from 1879, and its two wings span the road beneath. has an Art Nouveau brick front with green domes at its corner. A paved plaza with planters lies in front of it.
has 45 floors and rises to 151 meters, with offices, a hotel and apartments. It stands between the and the cruise terminal. , a 43-story residential tower, has an 8 by 8 meter letter M on its roof.
The is 802 meters long, with a 139 meter pylon nicknamed The Swan. Its southernmost span is an 89 meter bascule that lifts for ships, the largest of its kind in Western Europe.
Along the Entrepot basin, a black dock crane stands over moored yachts beside brick warehouses. Across the Spoorweghaven, a white railing runs along the water toward brick blocks and towers on the far bank.
Shot in Kop van Zuid
The 2020 romantic comedy Casanova's shows the architecture of Kop van Zuid. The Netflix action film The Takeover used the Erasmus Bridge for its climax.
The Takeover, Netflix
The Erasmus Bridge
Filming closed the bridge to traffic from 23:00 to 05:00 in February 2022. The bridge plays itself, a Rotterdam landmark in a film set largely in the city center.
What Kop van Zuid can double for
Speicherstadt in Hamburg, Germany
The Speicherstadt warehouses went up between 1883 and 1927 in red brick, with a Neo-Gothic outer layer of small towers. Loading canals run between the blocks, so the brick stands on water as the Entrepot warehouses do. Keep the newer HafenCity blocks out of a wide shot, because the warehouses repeat down each canal. A frame along one canal shows the warehouse district on its own. Try searching red brick warehouses canal now.
HafenCity's first quarter, on the harbor edge beside the Elbphilharmonie, was finished in 2009. Its water-edge blocks are close in age to the towers here. The concert hall holds the landmark role the Erasmus Bridge plays on the Maas. The Elbphilharmonie shows in any wide shot, so frame tighter on the canal edges unless the concert hall belongs in the picture. Try searching harbor blocks Elbphilharmonie now.
