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Beurs van Berlage
The Beurs van Berlage (literally Berlage's stock market) is a building on the Damrak, in the centre of Amsterdam. It was designed by architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage and constructed between 1896 and 1903. It influenced many modernist architects, in particular functionalists and the Amsterdam School. It is now used as a venue for concerts, exhibitions and conferences.
The building is constructed of red brick, with an iron and glass roof, and stone piers, lintels and corbels. Its entrance is under a 40-metre-high (130 ft) clock tower, while inside lie three large multi-storey halls, with offices and communal facilities grouped around them.
The aim of the architect was to modify the styles of the past by emphasizing sweeping planes and open plan interiors. It has stylistic similarities with some earlier buildings, for instance St Pancras station and the work of H. H. Richardson in America, or the Castell dels Tres Dragons, Barcelona, by Lluís Domènech i Montaner. True to its nineteenth-century roots, it maintains the use of ornament in a civic structure.
On 2 February 2002 the civil ceremony of the wedding of King Willem-Alexander and Máxima Zorreguieta took place in the Beurs van Berlage.
The Beurs van Berlage has a café located on the Beursplein side and the tower is also open to the public.
In the course of the 1870s, it became clear that Amsterdam needed a new Merchants’ Exchange. The existing Zocher Exchange of 1848 had not only become too small due to the economic upturn, but the building—nicknamed “the mausoleum”—had also fallen out of fashion stylistically. The Central Station, designed in 1876 and located opposite the old exchange, made this even more apparent.
The need for a new exchange, combined with the Central Station as the new gateway to the city, gave rise to a lengthy debate between the municipality on the one hand, and entrepreneurs organized in the Chamber of Commerce and architects organized in Architectura et Amicitia (A et A) on the other. The municipality wanted to spend as little money as possible, the entrepreneurs wanted a new exchange as quickly as possible, and the architects—led by A et A chairman Jan Springer—wanted an architectural masterpiece that would form part of a grand urban development plan connecting the Central Station with Dam Square.
In 1879, the municipal council appointed a committee to assess the feasibility of the exchange designs that had already been submitted. On 19 November of that year, the committee issued a report, which, however, was never discussed. On 18 October 1882, the council designated the recently filled-in Damrak, between Dam Square and the Oude Brug, as the site for the new exchange. It was to be financed as much as possible by the merchants themselves, and at the initiative of Adriaan Heynsius an “exchange tax” was introduced.
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Beurs van Berlage
The Beurs van Berlage (literally Berlage's stock market) is a building on the Damrak, in the centre of Amsterdam. It was designed by architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage and constructed between 1896 and 1903. It influenced many modernist architects, in particular functionalists and the Amsterdam School. It is now used as a venue for concerts, exhibitions and conferences.
The building is constructed of red brick, with an iron and glass roof, and stone piers, lintels and corbels. Its entrance is under a 40-metre-high (130 ft) clock tower, while inside lie three large multi-storey halls, with offices and communal facilities grouped around them.
The aim of the architect was to modify the styles of the past by emphasizing sweeping planes and open plan interiors. It has stylistic similarities with some earlier buildings, for instance St Pancras station and the work of H. H. Richardson in America, or the Castell dels Tres Dragons, Barcelona, by Lluís Domènech i Montaner. True to its nineteenth-century roots, it maintains the use of ornament in a civic structure.
On 2 February 2002 the civil ceremony of the wedding of King Willem-Alexander and Máxima Zorreguieta took place in the Beurs van Berlage.
The Beurs van Berlage has a café located on the Beursplein side and the tower is also open to the public.
In the course of the 1870s, it became clear that Amsterdam needed a new Merchants’ Exchange. The existing Zocher Exchange of 1848 had not only become too small due to the economic upturn, but the building—nicknamed “the mausoleum”—had also fallen out of fashion stylistically. The Central Station, designed in 1876 and located opposite the old exchange, made this even more apparent.
The need for a new exchange, combined with the Central Station as the new gateway to the city, gave rise to a lengthy debate between the municipality on the one hand, and entrepreneurs organized in the Chamber of Commerce and architects organized in Architectura et Amicitia (A et A) on the other. The municipality wanted to spend as little money as possible, the entrepreneurs wanted a new exchange as quickly as possible, and the architects—led by A et A chairman Jan Springer—wanted an architectural masterpiece that would form part of a grand urban development plan connecting the Central Station with Dam Square.
In 1879, the municipal council appointed a committee to assess the feasibility of the exchange designs that had already been submitted. On 19 November of that year, the committee issued a report, which, however, was never discussed. On 18 October 1882, the council designated the recently filled-in Damrak, between Dam Square and the Oude Brug, as the site for the new exchange. It was to be financed as much as possible by the merchants themselves, and at the initiative of Adriaan Heynsius an “exchange tax” was introduced.
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