City Hall Rotterdam
Neo-Renaissance civic palace with a concrete clock tower crowned by a gilded angel of peace.
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This guide to City Hall Rotterdam on the Coolsingel looks behind the Renaissance facade at the closed design competition of nineteen thirteen, and at the architects and the mayor caught up in it. It also steps inside, to an artist whose panels for the citizens' hall did not go down the way he might have hoped. Best heard from across the street, where you can take in the whole facade and the tower.
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