Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Sunrise above the inner circular runway of Brussels
View on the rushing traffic early in the morning on the inner ring of Brussels.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Brussels, Basilica of Koekelberg
The basilica of the Sacred Heart (or basilica of Koekelberg), one of the biggest churches in the world (view taken on the Nieuwstraat / Rogierplein).
It was built to remember the 75th anniversary of the Belgian independence. In 1905 king Leopold II laid the first stone. The initial plans of architect Langerock to built a gigantic neo-gothic church were stopped at the beginning of World War I. In 1919 the construction continues but with another architect (Van Huffel) and modern plans. The church was finished in the late 1960's.
The interior decoration is in 1930's art deco style. Since 1997 visitors can climb into the dome from where you have a beautiful panorama over Brussels and the surrounding area.
Schaarbeek houses - Brussels
Back to my pictures of Brussels. I was there only the weekend of the 1st of may, but I took a lot of pictures :) A really wonderful cloudy belgian day!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Schaarbeek houses - Brussels
Back to my pictures of Brussels. I was there only the weekend of the 1st of may, but I took a lot of pictures :) A really wonderful cloudy belgian day!
HDR from 3 exposures - f/8.0 - 1/200s - ISO 100 - 10mm
Nikon D80 with Sigma 10-20mm
"2008" Brussels Remembers 1958
The Atomium is a monument built for Expo '58, the 1958 Brussels World's Fair.
Designed by André Waterkeyn, it is 102-metre (335-feet) tall, with nine steel spheres connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.
