Now, here's a building with character. Built in 1899 as a department store this wonderful art-nouveau edifice is now a museum devoted to musical instruments –the equally wonderful MIM. The building is audacious but not at all vulgar or overdone; it stands out among its neighbours but not in such a way that it dazzles or ignores them –a perfectly behaved building in other words. And yet the details of its wrought iron facade and fine windows fascinate and thrill. It's almost like a fairytale building, a benign one, that you feel compelled to enter and explore. Were all buildings like this it would be too much for the eye, but how uplifting it is to come across such fabulous frippery now and again.
Location: Brussels, Belgium
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