Louis Delacenserie of Bruges designed the the domed ticket entrance to the Antwerp train station, completed in 1905. A viaduct into the building was designed by Jan Van Asperen. A clock sits in the center of a half rose-window, with …
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André Waterkeyn designed the Atomium monument for the 1958 World Expo in Brussels. It celebrated recent advancement in scientific understanding by mimicking atomic iron structural models. Nine steel spheres are connected with steel tubes through which escalators run. Each sphere …
^bram_souffreau– flickr/creative commons license) Johan Berte led the design for the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Station in Utsteinen Nunatak in Dronning Maud Land. It is a zero emission Antartic base that creates all of its own energy and recycles its waste …
Richard Rogers and Van KercKhove B.V.B.A., Ove Arup & Partners and landscape designer Wirtz International designed the new courthouse justitiepaleis for Antwerp, completed in 2006. The soaring spires in this £86m project are pointed with a east-west orientation to catch …
Alphonse Balat designed the Serres Royales de Laeken in 1873 for King Leopold II. Albert Sachsenteschen of Belgium and his wife Marie Christine of Autria had built the Laeken Gardens in 1782. It didn’t take long, however, until Napoleon invaded …
Completed in 1304, the Cloth Hall in the wealthy medieval trade town Ypres (Ieper) Belgium was one of the largest commercial buildings of the Middle Ages. It accommodated the town archives, a treasury, an armory and a prison. It also …
(Metro Centric– flickr/creative commons license) Another work by Santiago Calatrava. The Liège Guillemins station in Belgium is a railway hub for London, Paris, Brussels and Germany. Calatrava achieves another brilliant organic spine of steel (10,000 tons) and glass that speaks …