1850s proposal for a rail link between the north and south stations in Brussels at surface level. This would finally open, taking a mostl4 underground route, in the 1950s. The surface route along the river would be built as the central boulevards in the 1870s.
Notre-Dame de la Chapelle, Brussels. Squeezed between the urbanistic violence of the north-south rail junction and the Blaton Tower.
Avenue Circulaire, Uccle. Twin modernist houses from 1939 (robbed of their stealthy air terminal profile by roof extensions). By Georges Ricquier, pupil of both Horta and US architect Witney Warren, who rebuilt Leuven's University library after destruction in WW1.
Brussels Midi before it was wrecked to receive high-speed trains. It lost the restaurant, the tower and the dome of a thousand glass bricks. Design by Adrien & Yvan Blomme with Fernand Petit
The first design by Louis Tenaerts. Laeken, 1924. Carved above the door "..UTILE DULCI.."
1899 art nouveau houses in the Brussels East Extension. The brick patterns on the right are a negative image of the patterns on the left.
Art nouveau mosaic in Molenbeek from 1909 with a peacock strolling along a yellow brick road through an archway of his own feathers. God bless laudanum.
The door was open. Rude to but also rude not to.
Edmond Serneels built a lot of the gloomy red brick ecclesiastical piles dotted around Brussels. This is his own house from 1902. He walked the walk.
The guy responsible for the Brighton tile massacre has got away with it.
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Yes. Lots of commercial ceramic facades and some on social housing but I don't think I've seen this on private houses.
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Un même titre de transport pour voyager entre Lille, #Tournai et Courtrai ?
By 2012 there has been a flood of new members, the city planting budget is suffering and the whole symbolism thing has been scrubbed.
After 1995, the EU has 15 members and there are 15 square flower beds at a freshly-updated Schuman roundabout by 1996.
1971. The new Schuman is complete with neat hexagons, probably representing the original six. But there are 12 of them so symbolically it's fine until the enlargement of 1995.
Berlaymont and Résidence Palace c.1969. The Schuman roundabout is being renovated. Demolitions are underway at the future site of the Juste Lipse building, but construction won't start for another 20 years.
It covered almost an entire city block but as so often there had been one hold-out in 1938.
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I know, it's quite an odd sight in a narrow and ordinary street.
Yes, that's exactly it.
Where was this?
Well spotted. Same architect who modernised it.
Stone robot left over from the 1880 Belgian national industrial exposition. Cinquantenaire Park, Brussels.
1909 house in Ghent. Front door with iridescent Tiffany glass. Green ceramic façade by the Leeds Fireclay Co.
1925 houses, big and small, in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant. Ceramic facades supplied by Claes in rue des Fripiers, Brussels.
Villa Marie-Mirande in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, 1912. Full ceramic facade. Self-washing so always looking fabulous.
St John the Baptist church, Molenbeek. One of the earliest concrete churches in Belgium, a cheap solution for a poor parish. 1932 by Joseph Diongre.
Place des Coopérateurs in the Cité Moderne, a garden city in Brussels built from 1922 by the then 25 yr-old architect Victor Bourgeois. Stained glass by Pierre-Louis Flouquet.
The black glass facade of the Daily Express building in Fleet Street, 1932.
