Beurs van Berlage

The Beurs van Berlage is a building on the Damrak, in the center of Amsterdam. It was designed as a stock exchange 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 conference venue. Download high resolution version (1000x750, 177 KB)Made on 28 July 2004 by Mtcv. ... Download high resolution version (1000x750, 177 KB)Made on 28 July 2004 by Mtcv. ... A birdseye view of Amsterdam circa 1544, looking south. ... Municipality of Amsterdam Alternate meanings: See Amsterdam Amsterdam  listen is the capital of the Netherlands. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person licensed in the art of planning, designing and overseeing the construction of buildings, or more generally, the designer of a scheme or plan. ... Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856-1934) was a prominent Dutch architect. ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ... Le Corbusiers Villa Savoye, 1929-30: The modern style is noted for its rigorous geometrical forms, and became adopted internationally, though not without continuing controversy Modernism in the cultural historical sense is generally defined as the new artistic and literary styles that emerged in the decades before 1914 as... Functionalism is a term with several senses: For functionalism in sociology, see Functionalism (sociology). ... Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam The Amsterdam School (Dutch: Amsterdamse School) is a style of architecture which arose in the early part of the 20th century in the Netherlands. ...

The building is constructed of red brick, with an iron and glass roof and stone piers, lintels and corbels. Its entrance is under a large clock tower, while inside lie three large multi-story halls formerly used as trading floors, with offices and communal facilities grouped around them. A weathered brick wall. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metal Group, Period, Block 8 (VIIIB), 4, d Density, Hardness 7874 kg/m3, 4. ... The physics definition of a glass is a uniform amorphous solid material, usually produced when a suitably viscous molten material cools very rapidly, thereby not giving enough time for a regular crystal lattice to form. ... A roof is the top covering of a building that prevents the ingress of weather into the building interior. ... Stone can refer to any of the following: A rock. ... A pier in Lillebælt, Denmark A pier was originally a raised walkway over water that is supported by piles or pillars, as opposed to a quay or wharf. ... A lintel or header is a horizontal beam used in the construction of buildings. ... In Medieval architecture a corbel names a piece of stone jutting out of a wall to carry any superincumbent weight. ... For clock towers in general, see clock tower. ...

The aim of the architect was to reject the styles of the past. To the modern eye, it may still appear a little fussy, but at the time, most apparent were its sweeping planes and open plan interiors. It has stylistic similarities with some earlier buildings, for instance St Pancras station, but there the functional train shed was disguised by a neo-Gothic facade. The Gothic Revival facade and clock tower of the disused Midland Hotel are the most visible part of St Pancras station. ... In rail transport, a train consists of a single or several connected rail vehicles that are capable of being moved together along a guideway to transport freight or passengers from one place to another along a planned route. ... Besides its original meaning, of or relating to the Goths, a Germanic tribe and thus the Gothic language and the Gothic alphabet, and aside from its Early Modern connotations of rough, barbarous, the word Gothic has been used since the 18th century to refer to distinctly different things. ... West façade of the Notre-Dame de Strasbourg Cathedral A façade (sometimes just facade) is the exterior of a building – especially the front, but also sometimes the sides and rear. ...