Frédéric Moreau

And it's the weekend.

Costa del Sol. The Bodega Andaluza, Torremolinos' first tablao (flamenco club) in 1960, a year after it opened. It was soon joined on the nightlife scene by the London Town discotheque, opened by the owners of The Elbow Room in Birmingham.

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The Renovation of This Modernist Belgian Home Riffs On Its Ship-Inspired Design New rounded kitchen cabinets match the streamline moderne facade of the 1931 house by architect Henry Van de Velde.

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You click on ONE royal story and the gates of hell open.

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It looked good when I visited. Quite a contrast to his father's house and I suppose his childhood home.

Work on a new link between Brussels and the sea via Antwerp began in 1550, bypassing Mechelen, which levied tolls on goods using the river Senne and was ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy. A canal was dug entirely in Brabant, to the west. They had to pass the duchy on the left-hand side.

Andrew Marr cueing up Nick Timothy's ideas on immigration and climate-change. Such a class act. No boring questions about wtf he's talking about. No wonder he gets coveted exclusives like this.

Love the Ambiorix cats.

If only it wasn't about unleashing some innate national genius. But it is

A thoroughly depressing listen with some laughs along the way.

If Politics Bluesky were a building I'd want this to be engraved in stone above the entrance

Amsterdam School in Brussels. Flats on avenue Molière from 1930.

Now and then Brussels. Top, 1929 flats ave de Cortenberg. These replaced Alfred Poncin's forge (later garage) aimed at the carriage trade leaving Brussels to the NE. An ancient track led here from chaussée de Louvain. By 1914, it was also a guingette.

Thousands of these mismatched old houses. Designed for coal fires. Now divided into flats with individual boilers leaking heat. The street facades won't be insulated. The commune once retro-fitted them with gas for free. What's the plan now?

Art deco rose door-handle okn the side door of some 1931 flats in Schaerbeek. The postman's entrance.

Art-deco flats, Schaerbeek 1929. 4 units on the footprint of the single house each resident might have occupied before WW1. Meaning 4 cookers, 4 gramophones, 4 telephones, etc. From the rentier economy to the consumer society.

View west towards the Koekelberg basilica. Left, the white, 11-storey Ypres Salient apartments. Designed in 1925 for the Société Belge Immobilière. It put up vast blocks all over Brussels, taking advantage of a new law allowing middle-class Belgians to own freehold flats.

The AI version of the Cultural Tutor. Authoritative, plausible and incorrect. I would not be a teacher right now.

Millionaire's house.

A doctor's house and a civil servant's house.

Commercial: flats above shops and a cinema.

A church and a clergy house.

Homes by architects for themselves.

100 years on. Brussels architecture from 1925.
Apartment buildings.

Vintage digital. Cité Napoléon in Paris, image 2006. The city's first planned housing complex for workers from 1849.

Vintage digital. Brussels, 2005.

Vintage digital. Forum des Halles in Paris, completed 1979. Image from 2007.