Lumière

Location
Lijnbaan 45/ Kruiskade / Karel Doormanstraat, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Client
Manhave Vastgoed
Initiated
2018
Completion
2028
Size
57000 m2
Project Team, Photos & Collaborators
Anna Bogucka, Javier Cuartero, Christiaan Frankin, Narcisa Ionita, Kees Kaan, Jan Teunis ten Kate, Alexandra Klawikowska, Yinghao Lin, Vincent Panhuysen, Dikkie Scipio, Joeri Spijkers, Aldo Trim, Yiannis Tsoskounoglou, Michalina Wawro

Photos
Renders by Vivid Vision/Ossip van Duijvenbode/KAAN Architecten

Collaborators
VORM Holding, DLBouwmanagement, Pieters Bouwtechniek, DGMR, LOLA Landscape Architects, Witteveen & Bos, Eteck

Lumière is an ambitious vision for a 200m tower with a publicly connected and locally integrated plinth with over 400 apartments and commercial facilities in central Rotterdam. Positioned between a great diversity of city axes with variations in height and program, the plinth fans out to connect to the surroundings. It provides access to the semi-public interior spaces while keeping the protected buildings of the Lijnbaan ensemble intact. After slight setbacks in the volume, the tower rises from the base. The sleek facade grid includes recessed balconies for all apartments, spanning their full width. Lumière provides a qualitative impulse by combining housing, shopping, working and recreation. Commercial functions and facilities occupy the ground floor, along with a large atrium at the foot of the tower that gives entrance to the hotel and apartments. The inner court will be transformed into a working environment with offices and other amenities, with green terraces running along the courtyard and up the tower via the setbacks.