The Tadeusz Pavilion, four by four room, Insel Hombroich, Neuss, Germany, 2025

‘Passing through the formative processes of nature and then stepping into the buildings, you will find the specifically human power of design – that is, art.’
Erwin Heerich

Upon the suggestion of the founder of Stiftung Insel Hombroich, the sculptor and draughtsman Erwin Heerich (1922–2004) translated his terse geometric sculptural and drawn works into the architectural plane. Ten walk-in sculptures came about as museum buildings for Museum Insel Hombroich, with an exterior of reclaimed hand-made, fired Dutch brick. The upper part of the Tadeusz Pavilion, named after the painter Norbert Tadeusz, houses my favorite room which is usually kept empty as it’s perfect in itself. Emptiness fills the space while the space is empty.

For more than thirty years a unique cultural location of international significance has been evolving between Düsseldorf and Cologne, near the city of Neuss. Hombroich is a museum, an artists’ workplace and a landscape, a place for architecture and for events in art, literature, philosophy and music all in one.
The Museum Insel Hombroich was opened in 1987 as a realisation of the collector Karl-Heinrich Müller’s concept of art in parallel to nature in an ideal museum and landscape space. The pavilions house his significant collection of art and artefacts spanning two thousand years, with the emphasis on the Modern period.

To me personnaly The Tadeusz Pavilion encompasses everything architecture should be.

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Fire Spirit

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My wife walking across the central hall of château the Seneffe (1768), Seneffe, Belgium, 2025

The château de Seneffe was built between 1763 and 1768 by the architect Laurent-Benoît Dewez for Julien Depestre, a newly wealthy business man who became the Count of Seneffe and Turnhout in 1767. In the nineteenth century it became the property of the Philippson family, who restored the then almost a century old mannor and added modern amenities. After being confiscated during World War II, it served various purposes, including a school, before being abandoned and looted. It eventually was saved from demolition and restored as a museum in 1995. 

In the 18th century, wrought iron saw increased use in stairwell construction, particularly for balusters, alongside stone or wooden treads and handrails. The staircase of château the Seneffe is a fine example of this.

The façade of the dwelling, in Neo-Classical style, was built in blue stone that came from Feluy and Ecaussinnes. It’s courtyard is flanked by two long Palladian galleries with ionic columns, which house statues and vases sculpted in the antique style by Laurent Tamine, and lead to a chapel and living quarters, respectively.

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Explosion de couleurs dans la pénombre.
Pendant ma balade de ce matin, je suis passé à côté d'une mare où il n'y a pas beaucoup d'espèces d'habitude. Cette fois-ci j'ai entendu le chant caractéristique d'un martin-pêcheur d'Europe et après une courte attente, je l'ai finalement vu traverser le petit plan d'eau pour se poser sur une toute petite branche. La mare était dans la pénombre mais l'oiseau s'est placé directement dans un des quelques rayons de lumières. Un coup de chance et une rencontre toujours impressionnante.

(Martin-pêcheur d'Europe, Indre, Fr, 07/25)

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Afternoon

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