The interior of the Royal library of Belgium by the Courtrai art Workshops De Coene: remarkable witness of a changing vision on representation ; Het interieur van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België door de Kortrijkse Kunstwerkstede De Coene. Markante getuige van een wijzigende visie rond representatie

When the Belgian government decided to build a new Royal Library in the heart of Brussels, named the Albertine Library after King Albert I, they wanted to create a new powerful symbol for the Belgian nation. For this reason, the Albertine was to be realized together with a global redevelopment of the slope between Brussels’ lower and upper town: the so-called Mont des Arts/Kunstberg. Within the urban layout of this new Mont des Arts, a design by the architect Jules Ghobert (1881-1974), the impressive new national library got a prominent position along the new main square. The monumental design... Mehr ...