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The De Hoge Veluwe National Park was established by the businessman Anton Kröller and his wife Helene Kröller-Müller as a private estate in 1909. Up until 1923, the park was under construction with imported wildlife and the building of the hunting lodge and fences. The hunting residence is called St. Hubertus Hunting Lodge and was designed by Dutch architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage. Helene Kröller-Müller was an art collector, and work had begun on a museum inside the park.
The striking corner tower of the Amsterdam Exchange is, as here in the hunting lodge, a feature of several buildings by Berlage. The towers attain the same degree of simplicity of architecture as the other components, and again the retreating surface is taken sculpturally into the corners to avoid "deconstructive" transitions. The soaring component of towers as architectural gestures of almost symbolic meaning occurs in the work of many Art Nouveau architects. Those that come to mind include the Wedding Tower by Joseph Maria Olbrich or the railway station by Eliel Saarinen in Helsinki, which leads on in an almost direct line to American skyscraper architecture.
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