Atomium

The Atomium is a landmark building in Brussels, firstly constructed for the 1958 Brussels World Expo. It is positioned on the Heysel Plateau, wherein the exhibition came about. It is now a museum. Designed via the engineer André Waterkeyn and architects André and Jean Polak, it stands 102 m tall. Its nine 18 m diameter stainless-steel clad spheres are linked, in order that the complete bureaucracy the form of a unit cellular of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion instances. Tubes of three m diameter join the spheres along the 12 edges of the dice and all eight vertices to the centre.

They enclose stairs, escalators and a boost to permit access to the 5 habitable spheres, which incorporate exhibit halls and other public spaces. The top sphere consists of a restaurant which has a breathtaking view of Brussels. The Atomium become built as the primary pavilion and icon of the 1958 World Expo of Brussels. In the Fifties, faith in medical progress became first-rate, and a structure depicting atoms become chosen to embody this. The Atomium depicts nine iron atoms within the form of the body-focused cubic unit cell of an iron crystal, magnified 165 billion instances.