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Flagey Building

The Flagey Building (French: Bâtiment Flagey; Dutch: Flageygebouw), also known as the Radio House (French: Maison de la Radio; Dutch: Radiohuis), is a building located in Ixelles, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium, housing the Flageycultural centre. It is located on the south-western corner of the Place Eugène Flagey/Eugène Flageyplein, with its main entrance on the Place Sainte-Croix/Heilig-Kruisplein.

The building, parts of which are listed, was designed by the architect and completed in 1938 in Streamline Moderne, an international style of Art Deco. It owes its name to , a Belgian lawyer and politician who was mayor of Ixelles from 1935 to 1953. It served as the former headquarters of the National Institute of Radio Broadcasting (INR/NIR). When the broadcaster left in 1974, the building was refurbished as a cultural community centre.