The Wilhelminakade is an approximately 500-meter-long street on Wilhelminapier at the Kop van Zuid. Wilhelminakade begins at Wilhelminaplein and ends at the World Port Center.
Wilhelminakade got its name around 1900 and is named after Queen Wilhelmina. It was the seat of the Holland-America Line during the period 1901-1971. Particularly in the period up to World War I, large numbers of East European people movers left for New York via the Wilhelminakade. The Nieuw Amsterdam left in 1971 as the last ship of the liner service to New York. Since then, cruise ships have occasionally docked there. On the quay is the former main building of the Holland-America Line. In the 1990s it was converted into Hotel New York. However, the interior was kept completely authentic.
Norman Foster designed a master plan for the redevelopment of Wilhelminapier into a metropolitan boulevard at the invitation of the City of Rotterdam in 1992. He also designed the first high-rise on Wilhelminakade, the 124-meter-high World Port Center built in 2000.
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