Building
Architektur der freien neuen Schule, 1902, pl.63.
Façade (photo c. 1902)
Façade (photo c. 1902)
Ch. Bastin & J. Evrard © urban.brussels
Sgraffito and stained glass, second level, façade (photo c. 1990)
Sgraffito and stained glass, second level, façade (photo c. 1990)
Ch. Bastin & J. Evrard © urban.brussels
Sgraffito and stained glass, first level, façade (photo c. 1990)
Sgraffito and stained glass, first level, façade (photo c. 1990)
© KIK-IRPA, Brussels
Avenue Brugmann 55, Maison Les Hiboux, wall dormer (1976)
Avenue Brugmann 55, Maison Les Hiboux, wall dormer (1976)
© KIK-IRPA, Brussels
Avenue Brugmann 55, Maison Les Hiboux, façade (c. 1970)
Avenue Brugmann 55, Maison Les Hiboux, façade (c. 1970)
© Fondation CIVA Stichting Brussels
Avenue Brugmann 55, Maison Les Hiboux, door and sgraffito (c. 1970)
Avenue Brugmann 55, Maison Les Hiboux, door and sgraffito (c. 1970)
Among the buildings lining Avenue Brugmann, the observant passer-by will notice, on the house next to Hôtel Hannon, the strange sentinels perching either side of a dormer window whose pinnacles resemble an owl's ear tufts.
Whether a product of the imagination of architect Édouard Pelseneer or requested by the client, these nocturnal birds symbolising knowledge and clear thinking are also referenced in words and images on the sgraffito panel above the door. Not only that but the design of the window frames in their slightly horseshoe-arched openings, and the ironwork on the stairwell window, are reminiscent of owls' round eyes.
Even this beautiful façade was not enough to protect the house from demolition in the 1970s: along with its neighbours at numbers 53 and 51, the façade is now just a frontage for 19 apartments adjoining a public garden inside the block.
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By the same architect
Whether a product of the imagination of architect Édouard Pelseneer or requested by the client, these nocturnal birds symbolising knowledge and clear thinking are also referenced in words and images on the sgraffito panel above the door. Not only that but the design of the window frames in their slightly horseshoe-arched openings, and the ironwork on the stairwell window, are reminiscent of owls' round eyes.
Even this beautiful façade was not enough to protect the house from demolition in the 1970s: along with its neighbours at numbers 53 and 51, the façade is now just a frontage for 19 apartments adjoining a public garden inside the block.
