De Bijenkorf is a department store, designed by Marcel Breuer (the great Bauhaus architect) with an exterior that looks like its name, a beehive. Situated at the heart of the market in Rotterdam, it is an upscale department store. In front of it, you can see Naum Gabo's sculpture Constructie.
The small building you see on the right, with the green neon sign, is a lovely Italian restaurant, where I had a great dinner. Impeccable service and a nice place to watch people walking about, as it is situated on the crossroads of the two most commercial streets in Rotterdamn, right on the Koopgoot (buying ditch), a commercial pedestrian street that goes underground.

Several Roman Catholic churches were destroyed during the bombing of 1940. After the war only one new church was built, the Steigerkerk. This church was designed by architect Chris Knol and built in 1959-1960 on the location of one of the destroyed churches. It was so impressive in the night, that I had to photograph it. The lighting of the church is by Atelier Lek.

One of the most famous areas in Rotterdam, Blaak is the place where the Willem de Kooning Kunstacademie is located, as well as the Public library and the impressive Blaak train/metro station (1993), of which the dome you can see in the middle is the only visible part. Blaak means "still water" in a Dutch dialect. the station was designed by architect Harry Reijnders of Movares. The dome has a diameter of 35m and the bow above it has an over spanning of 62.5m. When I took the photograph, I was standing at the area reserved for the bi-weekly market.
Right behind it, way on the left, are the famous Kubuswoningen, the cube houses, built in 1984 by Piet Blom.

One of the most impressive places in Amsterdam (maybe in the Netherlands) is the NEMO museum. Why named NEMO? "NEMO means ‘nobody’. People visiting NEMO believe themselves to be in no man’s land, where fantasies suddenly seem to become real." from the museum's website. It was designed by Renzo Piano and was finished in 1997. The material covering it is oxidized copper, with a technique called "standing seams", one as old as the use of copper itself. The copper facade, which measures approximately 6,000 square metres, was assembled in less than six months.

NEMO is like a submarine emerging from the sea, or a huge whale, or a ship sinking. It is positioned at the very end of a road tunnel going under the sea, effectively hiding it from everyone! It is a science museum geared towards children (adult children too, :-)). Unfortunately I did not have much time there so I did not enter, only saw it from outside. I love their motto: Forbidden Not to Touch! In the summer, the roof is transformed into a city beach with a cafe nearby. You have to pay to enter the museum but the access to the terrace is free.