Historic sculpture from Dudok’s Bijenkorf comes back to the Coolsingel

Bijenkorf sculpture

The famous architect Willem Marinus Dudok designed the first Bijenkorf in Rotterdam. It opened in 1930 and was the largest and most modern department store in Europe. In May 1940, the building was largely destroyed by the German bombings of Rotterdam.  The department store was located near where the Maritime Museum is now. A sculpture […]