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Palais des Beaux-Arts
- Architect
- Victor Horta
- Date
- 1928 (begun 1922)
- Type
- cultural
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Brussels
- Status
- listed
- Address
- Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Bruxelles
A founding masterpiece of Belgian Art Deco, designed by Victor Horta for the Palais des Beaux-Arts at the initiative of mayor Adolphe Max and the music-loving banker Henry Le Bœuf. Horta set aside Art Nouveau for a geometric, monumental vocabulary. The building site (1923-1929) was a complex one: a sloping plot on the Coudenberg hill and the requirement not to block the view from the royal palace, which is why the building sinks into the ground. The complex brings together the Henry Le Bœuf concert hall, exhibition rooms and a cinema. It has been a listed monument since 1977.
Translated from the French original.
Occupied by
- Bozar (Centre for Fine Arts) cultural centre · Wikidata Q106556535
Sources
Featured in routes
- Brussels’ great Art Deco
- Brussels-Capital — Art Deco across the Region
- The Art Deco Pentagon — from BOZAR to rue Dansaert
Other works by Victor Horta
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai Tournai · 1928
Nearby
- Imprimerie Le Peuple 670 m
- Banque Buurmans 680 m
- Athénée Robert Catteau 760 m
- Immeuble Union et Prévoyance 790 m
- Siège d'Électrorail 810 m
- Ancien Cinéma Métropole 850 m