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Japanese Tower in LAKEN / BRUSSEL
(Van Praetlaan 44)

Arch. Alexandre Marcel
Picture by Johan Mares (@Belgiumview)

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After having visited the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, King Leopold II asked the Paris architect Alexandre Marcel the order to build the Chinese paviljon and the Japanese Tower. A building from the Paris World Exhibition was bought as entry paviljon.

The colorful woord-carving of both buildings is made by specialists from an Yokohama en Shanghai.

Nowadays, it is a small museum, housing Chinese porselain and Japanese art.

We thank Bart Van Oudenhove for the pictures of the illumination over night.

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Japanese Tower in LAKEN / BRUSSEL(Van Praetlaan 44)

Japanese Tower in LAKEN / BRUSSEL
(Van Praetlaan 44)