Background information: A railing with round details is a slightly playful, but especially neat fence for many purposes. They can be used as a balcony railing of an old stately home, but also in parks or near a large railway station where it can keep people from the busy street.
Architectural details: Solid wall with pens, which are thickened pieces of brickwork, which makes the wall more stable. This type of walls was formerly built around churches, monasteries and cemeteries.
Background information: These fences are modeled on backyard fences. These fences are common in the Netherlands, for example around the backyards of terraced houses. The construction consists of reinforced concrete posts with an H-shaped head profile, between which lightly rein…
Background information: In the Netherlands we have many water-rich landscapes where it is necessary to use ditches, parallel to the track, to keep the railway embankment sufficiently dry for the required stability. The ditches also prevented people from easily walking onto the …
Background information: In the Netherlands we have many water-rich landscapes where it is necessary to use ditches, parallel to the track, to keep the railway embankment sufficiently dry for the required stability. The ditches also prevented people from easily walking onto the …
Background information: In the Netherlands we have many water-rich landscapes where it is necessary to use ditches, parallel to the track, to keep the railway embankment sufficiently dry for the required stability. The ditches also prevented people from easily walking onto the …
Background information: An example of this simple concrete barrier still stands proudly in 2024 on the edge of the Kontich-Lint platform (between Antwerp and Mechelen). There it prevents people from falling onto the street at the rear edge of the platform, which is approximate…
Background information: There are numerous known variants of the concrete fence. For example, we find this "half-height" (1 meter high) variant of the concrete fence in Leuven, among other places. A nice detail are the top plates or panels that are slid in per section. These …
Background information: These fences were typical for the Northern French region around Lille. They were often found near railway crossings and at locations where the railway crosses a village or town. In some cases these typical fences can still be found, in many other locatio…
Background information: These fences were typical for the Northern French region around Lille. They were often found near railway crossings and at locations where the railway crosses a village or town. In some cases these typical fences can still be found, in many other locatio…