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It is located on the south side of the Grand-Place/Grote Markt (Brussels' main square), opposite the neo-Gothic King's House or Bread House [a] building, housing the Brussels City Museum. [ 1 ] Erected between 1401 and 1455, the Town Hall is the only remaining medieval building of the Grand-Place and is considered a masterpiece of civil Gothic ...
The façade was restored in 1854–1858 by the City of Brussels' architect, Victor Jamaer , and again in 1907–1913 by the architect Jean Segers. [9] Nowadays, a Starbucks coffee shop is located on the ground floor of this building. 5 La Louve (Dutch: Den Wolf or Den Wolvin; "The She-Wolf") House of the Oath of Archers
The Old England department store in 1981, after having been bought by the Belgian State and before restoration. The Old England department store opened a new branch location not far from its original building on the Place Royale in 1899, designed by Saintenoy in collaboration with the engineer Emile Wyhowski de Bukanski.
The Brussels City Museum is located in the Maison du Roi (King's House) or Broodhuis (Bread House). As early as the 12th century, the King's House (French: Maison du Roi ) was a wooden building where bread was sold, hence the name it kept in Dutch; Broodhuis ( Bread House or Bread Hall ).
The museum's collection presents Belgian musical history (including Brussels' importance in the making of recorders and various obscure proto-synthesizers (Ondes Martenot, [7] Theremin, [8] etc.) in the 18th and 19th centuries and as the home of the instrument inventor Adolphe Sax in the 19th century), [9] European musical traditions, and non ...
The museum is situated on the north side of the square, opposite Brussels' Town Hall, in the Maison du Roi ("King's House") or Broodhuis ("Bread House" or "Bread Hall"). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This building, erected between 1504 and 1536, was rebuilt in the 19th century in its current neo-Gothic style by the architect Victor Jamaer [ fr ] .
Built in 1898–1901, [8] the building houses a museum focusing on Horta's life and is among the few buildings by the architect that are open to the public. [ 5 ] Among the notable surviving examples of Horta's Art Nouveau architecture in Belgium that are not included in the UNESCO listing are the Hôtel Max Hallet (1903–1906) [ 10 ] and the ...
This front dates from 1763 and was recovered from the Hôtel des Grandes Messageries, a town house situated on that site. [ 2 ] The gallery owes its name to an investor named Pierre Bortier, who had acquired land between the Rue Duquesnoy / Duquesnoystraat and the Rue Saint-Jean / Sint-Jansstraat , [ 1 ] made available by the demolition of the ...