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Grand Hotel Belle Vue

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    Location: Middelkerke, Oostende, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

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    December 31, 2024

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    It was built from 1909 to 1911, to the design of the famous architect Octave Van Rysselberghe. He tried to reconcile neo-Palladianism with cottage architecture. The building had a progressive construction method, in which a reinforced concrete skeleton was covered with natural stone slabs.

    The luxury hotel was opened in June 1911. At that time, it had 120 rooms, two elevators and sixteen baths with warm seawater. Members of the Royal family also came here on holiday.
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    May 15, 2024

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    CONSTRUCTION HISTORY, STRUCTURAL STRUCTURE AND MODIFICATIONS



    The seaside resort of Westende and Grand Hotel Bellevue

    Fourteen years after Edouard and Paul Otlet founded the seaside resort of Westende, Grand Hotel Bellevue NV, founded in 1909, started the construction of a hotel of the same name.

    Architect Octave Van Rysselberghe, who had been city architect for some time at that time, was appointed for this purpose.

    He worked together with art dealer Nicolas Lembrée.

    Together they were responsible for a practical, harmonious and artistic design of a new hotel, according to the vision of the Otlet family.
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    March 31, 2022

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    The Grand Hotel Bellevue is a special building in the Belgian seaside resort of Westende. It is popularly called “Rotonde”.

    It stands like a beacon on the embankment of the …
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