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Amsterdam Stock Exchange

stock exchange, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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architecture of building

In Western architecture: Art Nouveau
…appreciated in his masterpiece, the Amsterdam Exchange (1898–1903). The exterior is in a rugged and deliberately unpicturesque vernacular, while the even more ruthless interior deploys brick, iron, and glass in a manner that owes much to the rationalist aesthetic of Viollet-le-Duc.
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The Amsterdam Stock Exchange, one of the oldest in the world, was founded in the early 1600s.
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