Holland Amerika Lijn, 1901-07

…shipping headquarters and migrant housing for the thousands of Dutch headed to New York’s Ellis Island used to occupy this stately 1901 building, which survived wartime bombing, at the tip of a peninsula in the Port of Rotterdam – now occupied by Hotel New York where I am comfortably staying for a couple of nights – is flanked by a growing crop of office and condo towers including a batch of four by OMA called De Rotterdam, in the works since 1997 and now just out of the ground a few blocks away. (more info)