Brussels · residential · listed
Résidence Palace
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- Architect
- Michel Polak
- Date
- 1927 (begun 1922)
- Type
- residential
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Brussels
- Status
- listed
- Address
- Rue de la Loi 155, 1040 Bruxelles
A pioneering project in Europe, commissioned in 1921 by the developer Lucien Kaisin from the Swiss architect Michel Polak. Résidence Palace was conceived as a "small city within the big one": luxury apartments, a theatre, an Art Deco swimming pool, restaurants and sports facilities. Inaugurated in 1927, the complex was occupied by the Germans in 1941. Block A was demolished to make way for the Europa building, seat of the European Council. The complex has been a listed monument since 2004.
Translated from the French original.
Sources
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Other works by Michel Polak
- Villa Empain (Fondation Boghossian) Brussels · 1934
- Ancien Institut dentaire George Eastman Brussels · 1935