Amsterdam Exchange (Architectural Competition)

DESIGN FOR NEW EXCHANGE, AMSTERDAM - This design was submitted in an international competition held in 1884, but was not placed. The site proposed was very long and narrow one and presented great difficulties in planning owing to the large area stipulated for in the conditions, and altogether the building shown would be upwards of 600 feet in length, the principal tower rising to a height of 220 feet above the pavement and costing about 2,000,000 florins. The design is based upon the best Dutch work, careful studies and measurements of which were made before the design was prepared. We have placed on the drawing the names of the three partners of the firm of Potts, Sulman, & Hennings, as now formally known, but we are requested by Mr Hennings to say that the design was really the work of Mr Sulman alone, who is now abroad. [Builder 14 April 1888 page 266]

Reference        Builder 14 April 1888 page 266]