Located in Brussels, the Atomium is a monument designed by André Waterkeyn in 1958. Originally, it was build for Brussels World’s Fair Expo '58. Waterkeyn felt that an atomic structure would be more symbolic of the era. It stands 102-metres (335 ft) tall and has nine steel spheres connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. Tubes connect the spheres along the 12 edges of the cube and all eight vertices to the centre. I visited the Atomium in the summer of 2006.
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