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Totally Tintin

Posted at 7:23AM Friday 29 May 2009

A spectacular new museum dedicated to Hergé, the pen name of Georges Remi, who created the comic-book hero Tintin, opens in the Belgian town of Louvain-la-Neuve on June 2nd. The museum, a fine addition to a somewhat drab skyline, is best seen at nightfall or under grey skies, says its architect, Christian de Portzamparc. In murky conditions, the building's structure of angled white planes glows from within, offering glimpses through huge windows of an "imagined landscape" inside.

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