Cover Picture: Steel Construction 3/2014

AbstractThe three stacked and interconnecting towers of De Rotterdam rise 44 floors to a height of 150 meters and span a width of over 100 meters. With the building’s completion, a critical mass has been established on the Kop van Zuid, realizing the long‐established vision of a second city center south of the river Maas. The building is named after one of the original ships on the Holland America Line, which from 1873 to the late 1970s transported thousands of emigrating Europeans bound for New York from the Wilhelmina Pier, next to which De Rotterdam is situated (see report p. 215). (Image courtesy of OMA; photography by Ossip van Duivenbode)