Rotterdam Centraal
Rail hub with a pointed steel entrance, wooden hall and a glass platform roof set with solar cells.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Rotterdam Centraal in Rotterdam looks at the station through sunlight, sky and river rather than trains. It follows the glass canopy over the platforms, the solar cells set into it, and the tall towers whose shadows shaped the pattern above your head. Along the way come the stainless steel entrance, the River Maas just to the south, and a few letters saved from the nineteen fifty-seven station. Best heard on the platforms, looking straight up at the glass.
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