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Central Gate
Central Gate also known as the Shell Building is a large office and retail complex in central Brussels, Belgium, designed in the New Objectivity style by and completed in 1934 with the collaboration of . Commissioned by , it originally served as the Belgian headquarters of Shell and incorporated shops, offices, and a rental car park, reflecting modern functional and commercial design of the interwar period. Located at 39–55 / , at the star-shaped junction of the / , the building stands near Brussels-Central railway station and within walking distance of the Mont des Arts/Kunstberg.
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Central Gate also known as the Shell Building is a large office and retail complex in central Brussels, Belgium, designed in the New Objectivity style by and completed in 1934 with the collaboration of . Commissioned by , it originally served as the Belgian headquarters of Shell and incorporated shops, offices, and a rental car park, reflecting modern functional and commercial design of the interwar period. Located at 39–55 / , at the star-shaped junction of the / , the building stands near Brussels-Central railway station and within walking distance of the Mont des Arts/Kunstberg.
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