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Home des Enfants du Hainaut — Bredene
- Architect
- Jean-Jules Eggericx
- Date
- 1926 (begun 1923)
- Type
- institutional
- Style
- Modernism
- City
- Bredene
- Status
- listed
- Address
- Kapelstraat 88, 8450 Bredene
Former holiday home for 200 children, designed around 1923-1924 by the Brussels architect Jean-Jules Eggericx, with the foundation stone laid by Queen Elisabeth in 1926. Functional architecture with a concrete frame and brick infill, an H-shaped plan, projecting concrete trusses and a glass-concrete roof light; the partly sunken laundry and boiler house has a more cubist form. The complex has been a protected monument since 2008.
Translated from the French original.