Closed for several years to have its aluminium cladding replaced with stainless steel, Brussels' finest post-war building (there isn't much competition) reopened last year. Then closed again because some of the new panels had to be replaced. Happily all is well now, though the long queues (one to pay and one to get in!) and fine weather meant we restricted our visit to the outside, amid the rubble and cement mixers of the incomplete landscaping:

Simon + Becs | brussels | atomium | re-clad | april 2007

And this is what it looked like in November 2002 and May 2005:

Simon + Becs | brussels | atomium | november 2002 + may 2005