Name:Basilica of Koekelberg Address:Parc Elisabeth City/Neighborhood:Brussels Monumental religious building designed by architect Albert van Huffel, engineer Paul Rome and sculptor Harry Elstrøm, in the Art Deco, Neo-Byzantine style. Very controversial project since the laying of the first stone in 1905 by King Leopold II, construction began only in 1925. In ...
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Name:Van Buuren House Address:Avenue Léo Errera 41 City/Neighborhood:Uccle A superb example of the Amsterdam School style, this beautiful villa was designed in 1928 by architects Léon Emmanuel Govaerts and Alexis Van Vaerenbergh, for the couple David and Alice Van Buuren. It became a museum in 1976, after the death and ...
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Name:Vandevelde House Address:Avenue Jacques Sermon 25 City/Neighborhood:Ganshoren The name given to this house probably comes from its first owner and has no connection with the architect Henry Van De Velde. Beautiful four-facade house in Art Deco-Regionalist style, designed by Antoine Pompe in 1922. English cottage inspiration, with its Tudor style ...
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Name:Villa Empain Address:Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 67 City/Neighborhood:Brussels Superb mansion, designed by architect Michel Polak, in the purest Art Deco style, built from 1931 to 1934. The client, Baron Louis Empain gave carte blanche to the architect who brought together the best craftsmen, choose the most beautiful materials, polished marble, precious ...
Read More »Astonishing house by Joseph Diongre
Name :Astonishing house by Joseph Diongre Address:Avenue Firmin Lecharlier 175 City/Neighborhood:Jette Style(s) Art Deco Not far from the Withuis, on 183 avenue Woeste in Jette, stands another astonishing small house by architect Joseph Diongre designed in 1927, as the large number above the door attests. Beautiful carved signature next to ...
Read More »Bourgeois house in Art Deco style, architect Ottelohé, 1937.
Facade of two levels in yellow bricks, some sections in standing bricks, enhanced with white stone and coated concrete. On the right, entry porch into the work with steps and arched plan walls under flat canopy; right wall pierced with a window on a polygonal plan with columns, the left ...
Read More »Small atypical modernist house
Name :Small atypical modernist house Address :Boulevard des Invalides 129 City/Neighborhood:Auderghem Curious atypical facade wedged between two buildings of totally different sizes and ages ! This house dates from the interwar period, but bears no vintage or architect’s signature. It accumulates rounded shapes, mosaic columns, half-circle windows, and recesses, alternations ...
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