An unfortunate bomb fell at the end of the war and partially damaged the buildings below. Instead of repairs, demolition took place. The initial plans for a magnificent new town hall were not implemented, and the damaged block of buildings, along with a three-story apartment building with shops on the ground floor, was replaced by an empty grassy area. This was only filled in the 1970s by the new building of the Dyje department store designed by Bohuslav and Kamil Fuchs, father and son. The neo-functionalist block shapes, horizontal window strip and lightened ground floor in their construction complement brutalism with the purity of the material of unplastered concrete, softened by the relief of the Znojmo eagle by Jiří Marek. With his latest building, Bohuslav Fuchs refers to the great model of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. From his villa Savoy (1928-1931), Fuchs transferred to the center of Znojmo a lightened glazed ground floor, a distinctive horizontal facade and a round element on a flat roof. The Dyje department store closed the main view of the square to the axis of Velká Mikulášská and Zámečnická streets, creating a contrasting base for the slender town hall tower, to which he let the entire square naturally rise. It became an example of high-quality modern new construction in the historical center and a vanguard of less successful department store implementations during the period of normalization (e.g. Prior in Jihlava). Despite the reservations that persist among the public, the Dyje department store became a respected modern building.