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Many luxury townhouses were built by the rich bourgeoisie in the Ixelles' ponds area. The neighbourhood presents a great sample of Brussels architectural variety, featuring Art nouveau and Art Déco styles in particular. Follow our guides while discovering enchanting façades, all being equally...

Art nouveau Heritage

Avenue Molière is one of the most beautiful avenues in Brussels : a green setting where audacity and conformism, excess and sobriety mix in an astonishing and harmonious mix of styles. The visitor will stroll through time, discovering this unique fresco of embassies, private mansions, bourgeois...

Brussels and its districts Heritage

This fascinating circular walking tour will take you from the hilltop Royal district down to the ancient streets and markets of the city centre in the valley below. On the way we will pass the remains of the city walls, in search of the soul of the mediaeval city.

Heritage

The district of Ixelles' ponds, where many mansions were built for the wealthy bourgeoisie, offers a stunning panorama on Brussels' architecture and particularly Art nouveau and Art Déco architecture.

Art Deco Art nouveau Heritage

The INR or « the sound factory » is a marvellous example of aesthetics espousing technical achievements to meet the requirements of radio work. Between Art Deco and modernism, the shape of the building reminds us of the fascination that the 1930s had for the architecture of machines and particularly...

Art Deco Interiors Heritage

If there is a single place in Brussels which enables you to wander and discover the greatest Belgian artists of the 19th and 20th, it is indeed the Ixelles cemetery. Here, the architects Victor Horta and Adrien Blomme rest in peace next to writers or musicians such as Charles de Coster or Eugène...

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This former freight station has been turned by Neutelings Riedijk Architects into a city where it never rains. The impressive Art nouveau steel structure covering the site was renovated by Jan De Moffarts and the Bureau Bouwtechniek.  

The "Gare Maritime" is an energy neutral building : renewable...

Industrial architecture Art nouveau Heritage