Beurs van Berlage
Landmark red-brick exchange hall by socialist architect Berlage, now a premier concert and event venue.
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This guide to Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam opens with the 1884 competition for a new exchange, a winning design exposed as a near-copy of a French town hall, and years of quarrels before a city alderman quietly summoned a fourth-place finisher. It follows Hendrik Petrus Berlage's socialist convictions into the building's thick red-brick walls and forty-metre clock tower, and the construction crisis when the structure began sinking into the old riverbed beneath it. Queen Wilhelmina herself opened the doors in nineteen-oh-three.
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