Beurs van Berlage

The Beurs van Berlage on the Damrak in Amsterdam, its brick clock tower rising over the street in July 2019. Hendrik Petrus Berlage designed it, and Queen Wilhelmina opened it in 1903 as the city's third exchange building, a plain-spoken brick block that broke with the columned temples elsewhere in this gallery. Berlage was a socialist who expected stock trading not to last and imagined the hall as a future people's palace. He was half right: the last trading to leave, an agricultural futures market, stayed until 1998, and the building is now a venue for exhibitions, concerts and events.