Building
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Rue du Lac 54, façade (1980).
Rue du Lac 54, façade (1980).
In 1897, a man called Stricker commissioned architect Ernest Delune to come up with a design for a large piece of land he owned on the corner of Avenue Louise and Rue du Lac. The corner plot was made doubly challenging by being on a slope, but Delune was undaunted. As a municipal councillor in Ixelles, he knew the neighbourhood well, particularly the area around the ponds, where he would go on to build a number of Art Nouveau houses.
Capitalising skilfully on the site's awkward shape, Delune designed a set of three adjoining dwellings. The house on the corner, with its clever mix of structures, seamlessly blends with and connects the properties on either side, each neatly aligned with its respective street. The use of red brick with strips of blue limestone gives a strong visual unity to the three buildings. Rather than Art Nouveau, the predominant style here is Flemish Renaissance, punctuated with a touch of the picturesque in the form of a turret with overhanging roof.
There was a proposal to redevelop the site in the early 1980s but fortunately the plans were abandoned.
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Capitalising skilfully on the site's awkward shape, Delune designed a set of three adjoining dwellings. The house on the corner, with its clever mix of structures, seamlessly blends with and connects the properties on either side, each neatly aligned with its respective street. The use of red brick with strips of blue limestone gives a strong visual unity to the three buildings. Rather than Art Nouveau, the predominant style here is Flemish Renaissance, punctuated with a touch of the picturesque in the form of a turret with overhanging roof.
There was a proposal to redevelop the site in the early 1980s but fortunately the plans were abandoned.
