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The Philips Pavilion (French: Pavillon Philips; Dutch: Philipspaviljoen) was a modernist pavilion in Brussels, Belgium, constructed for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair . Commissioned by electronics manufacturer Philips and designed by the office of Le Corbusier , it was built to house a multimedia spectacle that celebrated postwar technological ...
Bruxelles, ville d'Art et d'Histoire (in French). Vol. 3. Brussels: Éditions de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. Heymans, Vincent (2011). Les maisons de la Grand-Place de Bruxelles (in French). Brussels: CFC Éditions. ISBN 978-2-930018-89-8. State, Paul F. (2004). Historical dictionary of Brussels. Historical dictionaries of cities of the ...
After the First World War, as donors and philanthropists as well as Belgium's famed instrument makers started becoming scarcer, only about a thousand instruments were added to the collections between 1924 and 1968. Until 1957, the curators at the head of the MIM—Ernest Closson (1924–1936), his son Herman (1936–1945), and René Lyr (1945 ...
The Cinquantenaire was used as a filming location for Lucile Hadžihalilović's film Innocence in 2004. [9] The Cinquantenaire Arch was featured in the urban planning simulation video game SimCity in 2013. [23] The music video for Stromae's song Fils de joie, part of his album Multitude, was also filmed there in 2022. [10]
This multidisciplinary space was designed to bring together a wide range of artistic events, whether music, visual arts, theatre, dance, literature, cinema or architecture. The building housing the Centre for Fine Arts was designed by the architect Victor Horta in Art Deco style, and completed in 1929 at the instigation of the banker and patron ...
The Rue d'Aerschot is close to Brussels' city centre, and is adjacent to the Northern Quarter business district (also called Little Manhattan), where the World Trade Center (WTC) is located. The street is located on the edge of the Turkish Quarter, [3] and next to Brussels-North railway station, one of the city's three main train stations. The ...
The history of the Place des Palais is inseparable from that of the Royal Palace.Originally, the place was a valley dug by a stream, the Koperbeek, which separated the former Palace of Coudenberg (a very old palatial complex that dated back to the Middle Ages) from the Warande (game reserve).
The City of Brussels [a] is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, [b] as well as the capital of the French Community of Belgium, the Flemish Region (from which it is separate) and Belgium. [2]