A clay model of the Atomium, rendered in Rosé Pine red on a dark background
A site model of the Atomium in its neighbourhood: the landmark in Rosé Pine red among grey buildings, with its water in blue

Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.

Brussels · Belgium

Atomium

102 metres · 335 feet

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Height
102 m335 ft
Completed
1958
By
André Waterkeyn; André and Jean Polak
Coordinates
50° 53′ 42″ N4° 20′ 29″ E · 50.8949, 4.3415

Nine 18-metre spheres at the corners and centre of a cube stood on one corner, joined by tubes along its edges and through its middle, the lower spheres on three bipods.

Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under Brussels, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.

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