Its 40 rooms are elegantly outfitted by the Turkish studio Autoban and feature writing desks topped with Italian marble, leather headboards, handcrafted sofas, and freestanding Victoria & Albert bathtubs set on heated tile flooring. English chef Tom Kerridge and executive chef Dan Scott have signed on to run the main restaurant and bar, The Bull & Bear, housed beneath the original dome ceiling of the former trading floor. On the menu are throwback martinis, pints on tap, and British classics such as scotch eggs, Yorkshire Pudding, and crispy pig’s head. Rooms from £200 ($258 USD)

Bourse de Commerce, Paris

The French are turning their 130-year-old commodities exchange, long forgotten by Parisians, into a contemporary art museum. After multiple delays, Paris will finally open the Bourse de Commerce in June, unveiling a completely transformed interior designed by Japanese Pritzker Prize laureate Tadao Ando. Ando was commissioned by French billionaire François Pinault to create the space in part to house Pinault’s extensive private art collection. “By nesting new spaces within it, while respecting the memories of the city engraved in its walls, I will transform the building’s entire interior into a space for contemporary art,” says Ando on the project’s website.

Until a few years ago, the site was occupied by a handful of fonctionnaires from the Chamber of Commerce, who’ve since relocated to a less grandiose office as part of Pinault’s deal with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo to rehabilitate the space. Expanding the museum cost $170 million—more than Pinault, a French art legend, spent on either the Palazzo Grassi or the Punta della Dogana in Venice—with much of the budget going to a restoration of the facade. While details of the inaugural exhibition have yet to be announced, the showstoppers will surely be inside. Pinault’s collection comprises some 5,000 works by artists including Cindy Sherman, Albert Oehlen, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, and Louise Bourgeois.

Exchange Hotel, Vancouver

The $240 million makeover of the neo-Gothic Vancouver Stock Exchange (VSE) building at 475 Howe Street took three years—a short time to shake its reputation as the “scam capital of the world,” as the exchange was dubbed by Forbes in 1989. The onetime market, which traded in barely regulated small-cap mining and oil and gas exploration stocks, is now home to the Exchange Hotel. The classic renovation added 20 glass-walled stories with aluminum louvers to create a pinstripe effect, and 202 contemporary rooms with herringbone hardwood floors and bull and bear bronze desk sculptures. In the lobby you’ll find the original hexagon marble flooring and hand-painted ceilings. As for the infamous trading floor—it’s now a brassy, classic cocktail bar called Open Outcry, which slings sidecars and Sazeracs from tableside trolleys. Rooms from CAD 178 ($134 USD)

Bergen Bors Hotel, Norway

Opened in 2017, the Bergen Bors Hotel is by all accounts the most fashionable hotel in Bergen, attracting a cosmopolitan crowd to the second-largest city in Norway. Housed in a Renaissance Revival building from 1862, the 127-room hotel occupies the upper floors of the old stock exchange building and has its own take on Scandinavian design, with minimalist furnishings and neutral color palettes. The feel is unquestionably modern, with smart TVs and Nespresso coffee machines. But back in the day, this was a place for merchants to trade shares in each other’s fishery, shipping, and oil companies.

After the building became obsolete in the 1990s, it took 250 million Norwegian kroner ($27 million) of private investment from a family-owned hotel group, De Bergenske, to bring it back to life. “You have to develop these properties into more relevant businesses—and in Bergen, we have strong tourism,” says CEO Kjetil Smørås. Rooms from NOK 1,540 ($169 USD)

Equinox, San Francisco