Rotterdam, 1930. In the center is the newly opened De Bijenkorf department store, designed by Willem Dudok. Almost every building shown was destroyed when German forces bombarded the city in May 1940.
The southern half of Parkman Market being taken down in 1924 for street widening. Built in 1810 on corner Cambridge and North Grove Street, Boston, the northern section stood till 1960 when it was lost in the frenzy of West End urban renewal.
National Library in Bucharest, another building that fell to modernism.
