The Atomium is a landmark modernist building in Brussels, Belgium, originally constructed as the centrepiece of the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn and the architects André and Jean Polak as a tribute to scientific progress, as well as to symbolise Belgian engineering skills at the time, it is located on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Laeken, where the exhibition took place. It is the city's most popular tourist attraction, and serves as a museum, an art centre and a cultural destination.
General view of the Atomium
André Waterkeyn, the engineer of the Atomium, in front of a model of his creation
The start of the erection of the frame (11 April 1957)
Construction of the supports, first tube and sphere (21 August 1957)
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An 18th-century painting of a ship with Table Mountain in the background, used by navigators as the landmark to sail around southern tip of Africa.
The Eiffel Tower - tallest in the world from 1889 to 1930 and a famous Paris landmark