Winter

LES MAROLLES

After the flea market




Putting rubbish on the street is a crime. Who cares?
(No-one obviously...)






This is... a police station (Place du Jeu de Balle)

IXELLES

Former public broadcasting company of the Flemish community
(Place Flagey)




Little house on the prairie

CITY VIEWS

View from the court house (Place Poelaert)




Ring around the centre - Late November 5:45pm




Twin entrance (Ixelles)




One of the smallest and dirtiest shoe repair shops in Europe?




Bye bye rat race!!




No swimming @ Belgacom...




Gardian angel - probably quite usefull there (red light district)




Bruxelles-Nord / train station




African hairdressers @ Matonge (Brussels' black neighbourhood).
Hours of work and lots of people.

HOW TO PIMP YOUR HOUSE by ...

Replacing the original bay windows




choosing the right railings

BLUE

Not far from Bruxelles-Midi




Idem




Place Saint-Lazare / close to the North station

THE BIG BROTHERS

Palace of Justice (inaugurated in 1883 and the biggest building in the world at that time with a total built ground surface of 26,000 m²)




Sainte Marie (Place de la Reine)




From a different angle




The botanical garden




And again




Abbaye de La Cambre




National Basilica of the Sacred-Heart (Koekelberg) on a sunday afternoon.
The biggest Art Deco church in the world link




The Royal Palace




The back

STATUES

Atlas's son (Rue Ducale)




Don't you want to talk about it sweetheart?
(Ixelles)




Jake i'm hungry. Can we go home now?

LOST IN TRANSLATION...

conjer/congé




(signalitiek/signalisatie)
If you don't know how to translate it, you shouldn't work for the public transport company (or you simply invent a new word) :-/

ART NOUVEAU

This Tassel Town House (Rue Paul Emile Janson) made Horta famous and was the start of the Art Nouveau period (picture from http://www.abruxelles.be)




Detail of an Art Nouveau house from architect Albert Roosenboom.
(Rue Faider, Ixelles)




Albert Ciamberlani House (Rue Defacqz / Ixelles)




Detail




Detail of a house by architect Hankar, also Rue Defacqz




This beauty was designed by Gustave Strauven (a Horta pupil) for painter Georges de Saint-Cyr. I'll take a better picture after the restoration.




Detail 1




From the inside (Foto Ch. Bastin & J. Evrard © MBHG).




Detail 2