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From the Musee des Beaux-Arts d'Ixelles - and place Fernand Cocq - it's an uneventful ten minutes' walk south to place Eugene Flagey , a bare, dispiriting expanse whose fringes are occupied by several matching structures built in the modernist style popular in Belgium during the 1930s. The largest - on the southeast side of the square - is the former National Broadcasting Institute, a sweeping structure of yellow brick and acres of glass that was completed in 1937. Long disused - though there are ambitious plans to revamp it - the building was and is (for reasons that are hard to fathom) fondly regarded by the locals, who call it le paquebot for its resemblance to a luxury liner. To the southwest of place Eugene Flagey lie the etangs d'Ixelles , two little lakes - really large ponds - that are flanked by several handsome Art Nouveau villas. Avenue des Eperons d'Or , running alongside the first lake, has the pick with nos. 5 and 8-12 all designed by the Delune brothers in the florid, busy style - with balconies, layered stonework, turrets and high gables - which was their architectural hallmark. Across the lake, avenue General de Gaulle 38 & 39 illustrate the work of another Art Nouveau architect, Ernest Blerot, who specialized in wrought ironwork and demonstrated his virtuosity by building houses in pairs to heighten the effect. Close by, at rue du Lac 6 , stands another Delune creation, a narrow house with exquisite stained-glass windows and decorated with aqua-floral designs inspired by Japanese woodcuts.
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