Nazi Stukas zeroed in on Rotterdam on May 10, 1940, and they did not let up until they had leveled or gutted 11,000 buildings. But well before liberation, an underground city-planning commission went to work drafting plans for the 20th century Rotterdam that is now risen from the ruins.
Latest and handsomest building is the just-completed Bijenkorf ("Beehive") department store, designed by Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained Architect Marcel Breuer (TIME, Oct. 22). Last week its artistic companion piece and focal point was set into place: a massive (36 tons, 80 ft. tall), free-standing sculpture, placed on the sidewalk, that reaches up nearly to the...
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