The Concertgebouw, a concert hall in Amsterdam,…
April 1888 CE
Its superb acoustics place it among the finest concert halls in the world, along with Boston's Symphony Hall and the Musikverein in Vienna.
The architect of the building is Adolf Leonard van Gendt, who drew inspiration from the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, built two years earlier (it will be destroyed in 1943).
Construction had begun in 1883 in a pasture that was then outside the city, in Nieuwer-Amstel, a municipality that in 1964 will become Amstelveen.
A total of 2,186 wooden piles, twelve to thirteen meters (40 to 43 feet) long, were emplaced in the soil.
The Concertgebouw had been completed in late 1886; however, due to the difficulties with the municipality of Nieuwer-Amstel—filling in a small canal, paving the access roads and installing street lights—the grand opening of the building had been delayed.
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