It is more simple and, instead of the two upper floors, has a three-storey tower-like structure with a pyramid roof that extends beyond the ridge line of the outbuildings.

In courtyard B, the previous buildings in Nikolaistrasse (left) and Reichsstrasse (right) are depicted in large format on Meissen tiles based on a design by the Leipzig painter Heinz-Jürgen Böhme (* 1952).

Above this, the wall frieze by Moritz Götze (* 1964) "Morning, Noon, Evening" rises over several floors on over 20,000 colored ceramic panels.

Atrium C is decorated with 16 medallions depicting everyday objects, primarily shoes, in an enamel glaze technique by Johannes Grützke (1937–2017).

Starting on Reichsstrasse, the first construction phase of the current building with 5,000 m2 (53,819.6 sq ft) of exhibition space was built according to plans.

After purchasing and demolishing the buildings facing Nikolaistrasse - including the so-called "Nuremberg House" - the second construction phase was completed in 1911.

During the Second World War, the building complex was badly damaged in an air raid on 4 December 1943, and lost its roof structures.

The Leipzig painters Heinz-Jürgen Böhme and Detlef Lieffertz (* 1949) recreated the trade scenes in atrium C, which were created in 1927 by Otto Josef Olbers and Theodor Illing and destroyed in the war.

This restoration, carried out by the Düsseldorf-based architectural firm RKW, won the prize for the most beautiful refurbished office building of the year at the world's largest real estate fair MIPIM in Cannes in 1996.