The Amsterdam International Motor Show or AutoRAI was a motor show that took place every two years in Amsterdam , Netherlands . The history of the AutoRAI goes back to 1893, when the association of Bicycle Industry (RI) was established. The first bicycle exhibition was organised in 1895. In 1900, the Dutch auto trade industry joined the RI organization and the association Bicycle & Automotive Industry (RAI) was born.
22-460: In 1899, a year before RAI was established, the first automobiles were already officially on display during the bicycle exhibition that opened on 16 March at the Palace of Industry . In fact, they stole the show and the public lined up in big numbers. Until 1913, the automobile, motorcycle and bicycle exhibition took place regularly, but because the organisation found the palace rent too high, it stopped
44-575: A European event in a country with very little car industry of its own. Japanese manufacturers thus had a neutral ground (away from the spotlights of Geneva ) where they could be expected to make their European premieres of cars already shown at home. The AutoRAI was usually held in February, giving the Japanese four months to develop European market models after the common October ( Tokyo Motor Show ) premieres of Japanese automobiles. AutoRAI 2013, which
66-528: A luxury shopping gallery designed by Adolf Leonard van Gendt in 1881–1883. Under the directorate of Johannes George de Groot, his operatic troupe performed in the Palace, until it went bankrupt in 1895. The Palace orchestra and organ player were laid off in the same year and the Palace gradually lost its position as a cultural center. The placing of an organ in the Concertgebouw drew the crowd away from
88-504: Is 2.8 seconds without audience, 2.2 seconds with, making it ideal for the late Romantic repertoire such as Mahler . Although this characteristic makes it largely unsuited for amplified music, groups such as Led Zeppelin , Pink Floyd and The Who did perform there in the 1960s. In the Main Hall, there is a layer of dust in several places as removing this layer would impact the acoustics as they are now. A smaller, oval-shaped venue,
110-438: The 2,186 rotting wooden pilings were replaced with concrete pillars. Dutch architect Pi de Bruijn designed a modern annex for a new entrance and a basement to replace cramped dressing and rehearsal space. The organ was built in 1890 by the organ builder Michael Maarschalkerweerd from Utrecht , and was renovated in the years 1990 to 1993 by the organ builder Flentrop . It has 60 registers on three divisions and pedal . In
132-534: The AutovakRAI 2013 was also cancelled for the same reasons. After a 2015 edition was organized, it was announced on August 31 2015 that the 2017 edition would be cancelled again due to insufficient space reservation by manufacturers. According to the RAI press release, it seems that they do not plan to organize any more AutoRAI events. 1993 was the largest Amsterdam show to date, with the original single hall now being
154-628: The Cavaillé-Coll organ, which was sold to the Haarlem municipality (sponsored by the business men Adriaan Stoop and Julius Carl Bunge ). In 1922 it was moved to the Philharmonie Haarlem , where it still resides. A fire destroyed the Palace on the night of April 17, 1929. The gallery or arcade , housing shops and apartments, was spared, but the main building was lost and never reconstructed. Writer Gerard Reve lived in one of
176-919: The Concertgebouw is the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ( Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest ), which gave its first concert in the hall on 3 November 1888, as the Concertgebouw Orchestra ( Concertgebouworkest ). For many decades from the 1950s to the present day the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (previously the Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra) as well as the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest also provide their regular concert series in
198-460: The Concertgebouw, for a public of over 700,000, making it one of the most-visited concert halls in the world. As of February 2014 , the managing director of the Concertgebouw is Simon Reinink and the artistic director is Anneke Hogenstijn. The Main Hall ( Grote Zaal ) seats 1,974, and is 44 metres (144 feet) long, 28 metres (92 feet) wide, and 17 metres (56 feet) high. Its reverberation time
220-653: The Concertgebouw. On 17 September 1969, British progressive rock band Pink Floyd performed their The Man and The Journey show at Concertgebouw. The show's climax was a rendition of " Celestial Voices " (renamed "The End of the Beginning") in which keyboardist Rick Wright played the hall's organ in place of his Farfisa . The performance was released on CD as part of the band's 2016 box set, The Early Years 1965–1972 in Volume 3: 1969 Dramatis/ation . Today, some 900 concerts and other events per year take place in
242-576: The Recital Hall ( Kleine Zaal ), is located behind the Main Hall. The Recital Hall is 20 metres (66 feet) long and 15 metres (49 feet) wide. Its more intimate space is well-suited for chamber music and Lieder . The Recital Hall has 437 seats. In 1983, the Concertgebouw was found to be sinking into the damp Amsterdam earth, with several inch-wide cracks appearing in the walls, so the hall embarked on extensive fundraising for renovations. Its difficult emergency restoration started in 1985, during which
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#1732786952260264-524: The apartments in the gallery in the 1950s. The gallery was finally torn down in 1960 to make way for the new Nederlandsche Bank building. Concertgebouw, Amsterdam The Royal Concertgebouw ( Dutch : het Koninklijk Concertgebouw , pronounced [ət ˈkoːnɪŋklə kɔnˈsɛrtxəˌbʌu] ) is a concert hall in Amsterdam , Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" translates into English as "concert building". Its superb acoustics place it among
286-536: The centre of a much bigger exhibition. There were also more new car presentations than usual for Amsterdam, headlined by the all new Peugeot 306 . Paleis voor Volksvlijt The Paleis voor Volksvlijt (Palace of Industry) was a large exhibition hall in Amsterdam, located on the Frederiksplein, near the current location of De Nederlandsche Bank . The building was constructed between 1859 and 1864. It
308-421: 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 was delayed. The hall opened on 11 April 1888 with an inaugural concert, in which an orchestra of 120 musicians and a chorus of 500 singers participated, performing works of Wagner , Handel , Bach , and Beethoven . The resident orchestra of
330-536: The finest concert halls in the world, along with Boston's Symphony Hall and the Musikverein in Vienna. In celebration of the building's 125th anniversary, Queen Beatrix bestowed the royal title " Koninklijk " upon the building on 11 April 2013, as she had on the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra upon its 100th in 1988. The architect of the building was Adolf Leonard van Gendt [ nl ] , who
352-411: The presence of king William III . The building was opened on August 16, 1864. Starting 1865, it hosted weekly concerts by its own Palace Orchestra, directed by Johannes Meinardus Coenen until 1891, then by Richard Hol . The famous French constructor of organs, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll , put in place a large concert organ in 1875. This organ was first played by Alexandre Guilmant on October 26, 1875. It
374-441: The shows. Only in 1922, when they had built their own, yet temporary building at Ferdinand Bolstraat in Amsterdam (the 'Oude RAI'), the exhibition resumed again and would stay there for some forty years. In 1961, the first AutoRAI took place in the new building at Europaplein, still its current location, which has grown into a big exhibition and conference center. In the 1970s through the 1990s, AutoRAI served an important function as
396-649: Was designed by architect Cornelis Outshoorn, inspired by the Crystal Palace in London. In 1929, it was destroyed by fire. After Samuel Sarphati had visited The Great Exhibition , he decided to found the Vereeniging voor Volksvlijt (Association for Popular Diligence) with the goal of erecting a building similar to the Crystal Palace in London. In 1853, he petitioned the municipality. His new Palace
418-576: Was inspired by the Gewandhaus in Leipzig , built two years earlier (and destroyed in 1943). Construction began in 1883 in a pasture that was then outside the city, in Nieuwer-Amstel, a municipality that in 1964 became Amstelveen . A total of 2,186 wooden piles, 12 to 13 metres (40 to 43 ft) long, were emplaced in the soil. The Concertgebouw was completed in late 1886, however due to
440-473: Was later played by Charles-Marie Widor (1886), Louis Vierne (1895) and Camille Saint-Saëns (1897). The Palace's regular organist, from 1879, was the Belgian Jean-Baptiste de Pauw . It soon turned out that exploitation of the building as an exhibition hall was infeasible. The Palace, instead, turned into an entertainment center, and part of its garden was sold off. The ground was to house
462-519: Was scheduled to take place in April 2013, was cancelled. The organisers made the decision after consultation with the RAI Association and major car brand importers. The economic developments in the automotive sector had made it impossible to organise a fully-fledged event. The aforementioned parties said they would now focus on possible new setups of the event in the future. In addition to AutoRAI,
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#1732786952260484-453: Was to be part of an extensive plan of expansion of the city, which also included construction on the banks of the Amstel and in what is now De Pijp . In 1855, municipal authorities agreed to Sarphati's plan. A prize was offered for building designs in 1856, but not awarded to any contestant. The Association then contacted Outshoorn. On September 7, 1859, construction was officially started in
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