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Church of St. Augustine, Forest

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Saintt Augustine's Church
Saintt Augustine's Church

The Church of St. Augustine (French: Église Saint-Augustin, Dutch: Sint-Augustinuskerk) is a Roman Catholic parish church located in Forest, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. It is dedicated to Saint Augustine. Designed by the architects Léon Guiannotte and André Watteyne in Art Deco style, and built between 1932 and 1935, it is one of three major churches in Brussels made of reinforced concrete (the other two are the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Koekelberg and the Church of St. John the Baptist in Molenbeek). The building received protected status on 8 August 1988.The church is located on the Place de l'Altitude Cent/Hoogte Honderdplein (a square named due to its altitude one hundred meters above sea level), not far from Duden Park and the Chaussée d'Alsemberg/Alsembergse Steenweg. This site is served by the bus and tram stop Altitude Cent/Hoogte Honderd (on lines 48, 51 and 70).

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Church of St. Augustine, Forest
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Église Saint-Augustin - Sint-Augustinuskerk

Place de l'Altitude Cent - Hoogte Honderdplein
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Villa Beau-Site
Villa Beau-Site

Villa Beau-Site or Maison Nelissen (Nelissen House) is an Art Nouveau building in the municipality of Forest in Brussels, Belgium. It was built in 1905 as the private residence of Dutch-born architect Arthur Nelissen and his wife, soon after their wedding. It was classified as a protected heritage site in 2006.The façade of the building is unusually narrow, under 5 metres (16 ft), but richly decorated. The ground floor, in sinuous Art Nouveau style, has an asymmetrical layout and is in blue stone and with details in original elaborately wrought iron. The first floor is dominated by a large horseshoe arch which perforates the façade, giving way to a small loggia. Behind the loggia, another horseshoe arch frames the window opening to the loggia. The top floor contains a small wrought-iron balcony, and the very top of the façade is decorated with a bas-relief depicting a vase of flowers. The material used for the façade is mainly brick; white bricks cover most of the surface but green bricks and blue stone has been used to highlight the arch and other features of the façade. In 1920, decoration in the form of stylised roses were added between the first and second floor.Inside, the building preserves its original floor plan. It forms part of a row of homogenous townhouses, built 1904–1910 in eclectic styles, overlooking Forest Park.The building bears certain similarities with Saint-Cyr House by Gustave Strauven, also in Brussels. The official list of architectural heritage of Brussels describes the facade of the building as "remarkable" and art historian Cécile Dubois has described the building as "a stunning architectural gem".