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  ‘It is absolutely unnecessary, even detrimental, to embellish the façades’ Experiments with concrete in social housing in Belgium after the First World War

  Stephanie Van de Voorde, Robby Fivez

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  Following World War I, Belgium faced a severe housing crisis, necessitating a comprehensive reform of social housing policy. Established in 1919, the National Society for Cheap Housing (Nationale Maatschappij voor Goedkope Woningen en Woonvertrekken, nmgww) aimed not only to repair material damage but also to address new social and societal demands. However, financial resources were limited, while there was also a severe shortage of (traditional) building materials and skilled labour. Progressive architects attempted to create a new, socially engaged architecture with a modernist...

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  A large church in a village that failed to become a city The Oude Jeroenskerk in Noordwijk

  Michel van Dam

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  The Oude Jeroenskerk in the South Holland coastal village of Noordwijk is the largest, and one of the most perfectly preserved, late medieval village churches in the provinces of South and North Holland. Compared with the village in which it stands and the village churches in the surrounding area, the Oude Jeroenskerk is not just beautifully proportioned, but above all remarkably large. This phenomenon – a large church in a small settlement – is clearly interesting, yet it has never been the subject of specific research.

  Following the miraculous discovery in 976 of the bones of...