Venue: Flagey Building
Town: Ixelles, BE

The Flagey Building (French: Bâtiment Flagey; Dutch: Flageygebouw), also known as the Radio House (French: Maison de la Radio; Dutch: Radiohuis), is a building located in Ixelles, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium, housing the Flagey cultural centre. It is located on the south-western corner of the Place Eugène Flagey/Eugène Flageyplein, with its main entrance on the Place Sainte-Croix/Heilig-Kruisplein. The building, parts of which are listed, was designed by the architect Joseph Diongre and completed in 1938 in Streamline Moderne, an international style of Art Deco. It owes its name to Eugène Flagey, a Belgian lawyer and politician who was mayor of Ixelles from 1935 to 1953. It served as the former headquarters of the National Institute of Radio Broadcasting (INR/NIR). When the broadcaster left in 1974, the building was refurbished as a cultural community centre. The Flagey Building, designed by Joseph Diongre after winning a competition launched in 1933, was opened in 1938. The competition was launched to create a building to house the first national broadcaster in Belgium, the National Institute of Radio Broadcasting (French: Institut National de Radiodiffusion or INR, Dutch: Nationaal Instituut voor de Radio-omroep or NIR) (1930-1960). Henry van de Velde and Victor Horta were on the jury that awarded the prize to Diongre. The building owes its name to Eugène Flagey, a Belgian lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Ixelles from 1935 to 1953. It is designed in Streamline Moderne, an international style of Art Deco, also known as style paquebot ("ocean liner style") in France. Owing to its shape somewhat resembling a ship, the building is nicknamed "Packet Boat" or "paquebot". The interiors included much wood panelling and thin tube lamps, typical of the style. The building garnered critical acclaim as soon as it was finished, and the qualities of the studios attracted renowned classical, contemporary and jazz musicians to perform there (including Chuck Be