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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
