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Waterkeyn ontwierp het 102 meter hoge monument met negen bollen voor de Wereldtentoonstelling van 1958 in Brussel.
Vorig jaar is begonnen met een grondige renovatie van het Atomium.
Waterkeyn was eind jaren negentig nog betrokken bij de renovatieplannen.
www.telegraaf.nl /buitenland/article26429001.ece?rss   (113 words)

  
  Atomium & Heyzel area- Brussels, Belgium - VirtualTourist.com
It is a structure that symbolises a crystallised molecule of iron by the scale of its atoms, magnified 150 thousand million times.
Every one of the nine large spheres is joined by tubes which comprise the Atomium They are arranged in the configuration of a central cubic system.
It was designed by Andre Waterkeyn to replicate an iron atom magnified 165 billion times.
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  [Exotica] [obit] André Waterkeyn   (Site not responding. Last check: )
André Waterkeyn came up with the idea for Atomium – the giant atom of nine spheres in Heysel – which was built for the Universal Exhibition in 1958.
Waterkeyn, who was born in Wimbledon in the UK, during the Occupation of Belgium in 1917, moved to Brussels with his family when he was four.
A few hours before Waterkeyn's death, the Atomium non-profit organisation announced that the monument will be reopened to the public on 14 February.
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