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Brussels ’50s ’60s
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  • Nothing will ever be the same again
    • The birth of the consumption society
    • The car rules
  • Humanised modernism
    • Orthogonal strictness
    • Style 58
    • Organic poetry
  • Architecture of transparency
    • Curtains of glass
    • Walls vanish
  • Fascinating techniques
    • Airborne structures
    • The frame laid bare
    • Prefabrication
  • Enlivened façades
    • City of colours
    • The warmth of concrete
    • The taste of authenticity
    • The application of art
  • Between utopia and conformism
    • Nostalgic conformism
    • Modernity’s difficult comeback
    • American Dream
    • Cities within the city
    • Housing for all
  • An architecture in peril
    • Turning fifty

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City of colours

Touches of bright and lively colours make joyful architecture.
Rue Van Artevelde 2-4, Brussels, architect Paul-Amaury Michel, 1955.
Windmolenberg 7, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, architect Marcel Bols, 1959.
Avenue de la Liberté 90, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, architect Julien Roggen, 1959.
Mosaic, Rue de Verviers 7, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, architect Robert Ritzen, 1959.

Navigation principale

  • City of colours
  • The warmth of concrete
  • The taste of authenticity
  • The application of art
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