Rot­ter­dam has under­gone sig­ni­fic­ant change in recent dec­ades as its port has gradu­ally moved away from the city centre, leav­ing behind large areas of under­used indus­tri­al land. These spaces now present an oppor­tun­ity for urb­an regen­er­a­tion, and the approach to redevel­op­ment ranges from large-scale, top-down plan­ning to more organ­ic, com­munity-driv­en efforts. The shift from indus­tri­al water­fronts to a mixed-use urb­an land­scape is par­tic­u­larly evid­ent in  Kop van Zuid. This former har­bour area has seen sig­ni­fic­ant changes, with a focus on res­id­en­tial highrises, new archi­tec­tur­al inter­ven­tions, and an emphas­is on con­nect­ing the city with the river Maas. Now gentri­fic­a­tion has reached the once-indus­tri­al Katendrecht pen­in­sula, which was his­tor­ic­ally known for its red-light dis­trict. Today, this area is see­ing a mix of res­id­en­tial and com­mer­cial redevel­op­ment, with pro­jects such as the Fenix Lofts offer­ing an example of how old ware­houses can be repur­posed to meet mod­ern liv­ing stand­ards. Just next door there’s anoth­er ware­house con­ver­sion, fea­tur­ing one of the most spec­tac­u­lar recent addi­tions to the sky­line: the FENIX museum of migration.