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CBR Building
The CBR Building is a Functionalism (architecture), functionalist office building situated in Watermael-Boitsfort, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Designed by the architects Constantin Brodzki and Marcel Lambrichs and built between 1967 and 1970, its Prefabrication, prefabricated modular facade showcases white concrete instead of hiding it as a construction material, classifying the building as a Brutalist architecture, New Brutalist piece of architecture. In November 2018, it was added to the list of Heritage registers in Belgium, protected heritage within the Brussels-Capital Region. Description Architecture The building is made up of two parallel wings attached to each other but slightly offset. With a height of , it has nine floors above ground and three underground floors. Designed to highlight the qualities of the material produced by Belgian cement works, its facade is made up of an assembly of 756 Prefabrication, prefabricated oval modules in molded white cement co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watermael-Boitsfort
Watermael-Boitsfort () or Watermaal-Bosvoorde () is a residential suburb of the city of Brussels in Belgium, and one of the 19 municipalities which form the Brussels-Capital Region. The municipality has a total area of of which 58 percent is covered by the Sonian Forest (''Forêt de Soignes'' or ''Zoniënwoud''). It borders the municipalities of Uccle, Auderghem and Ixelles as well as the province of Flemish Brabant. In 2006 the municipality had a total population of 24,056. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch). History The modern-day municipality of Watermael-Boitsfort was originally two separate settlements located on a plain between the two small rivers of Woluwe and Watermaelbeek to the north of the Sonian Forest. The earliest evidence of human activity in the region are the remains of a small fortified neolithic village of the Michelsberg culture, dating to between 3500 and 2500 BC. The earliest mention of the name ''W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
