Royal greenhouses of Laeken
Wonder of architectural made up of metal and glass built by Alphonse Balat in the park contiguous to the royal castle of Laeken on the initiative of Léopold II.
the royal Greenhouses of Laeken count among the principal monuments of the 19th century in Belgium. They were entirely built out of metal and glass, which represented for the time a spectacular innovation just like the Crystal De luxe hotel (built with London by the Paxton architect in 1851).
In 1873, the architect Alphonse Balat conceives for the King Léopold II a complex of greenhouses in relation to the Château of Laeken.
This complex revêt the appearance of a town of glass established in an undulating landscape. It is characterized by monumental houses, cupolas of glass, broad galleries which traverse the ground like covered streets.
The greenhouses especially inspired the new Belgian architecture of this time. Their radiation was propagated, with the Art nouveau, through the whole world.
The opening to the public a fifteen or so days per annum only, always at the same period, is the occasion to discover one of the most remarkable monuments of the Belgian inheritance and to admire there the collections of plants and exotic flowers of which some one brought back forwardings to the Congo for Léopold II.
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