Stumbled upon this cool picture on Facebook of the Atomium during constructions. Does anyone have info on it?

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BioFrosted

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  2. Maan that’s a cool pic! It looks post-apocalyptic! Eerie even!

  3. You can tell it’s under construction by the the fact it’s not complete yet.

  4. Het is een foto gemaakt door Dolf Kruger, en hangt in het Nederlands fotomuseum. Meer info op [https://collectie.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/collectie/detail/21622250-eeea-4794-74db-78509ef65096/media/ce900beb-8335-843b-c166-94b0bb48a54f?mode=detail&view=horizontal&q=atomium&rows=1&page=6&fq%5B%5D=search_s_fotograaf:%22Kruger,%20Dolf%22](https://collectie.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/collectie/detail/21622250-eeea-4794-74db-78509ef65096/media/ce900beb-8335-843b-c166-94b0bb48a54f?mode=detail&view=horizontal&q=atomium&rows=1&page=6&fq%5B%5D=search_s_fotograaf:%22Kruger,%20Dolf%22)

  8. Nice picture! Must have been a massive undertaking then, probably would still be now šŸ™‚

  10. If you zoom in you can actually see a man standing on the top sphere. So cool.

    Great photograph, too bad Iā€™m becoming too sceptical with AI these days. At first thought it was fake. It looks too good.

  11. it’s a picture of the Atomium under construction.It was taken before it was completed. Location: Brussels.

  15. It is a miracle that no major accidents happened there: we were still working without helmets, without support, we crawled everywhere without safety belts and sometimes from a wooden box that was pulled up with a winch, and when it was a bit windy, it swung back and forth. It was misery from the beginning of the works: Heysel was still a wilderness at that time, like the Congo,” he recounted.

    [source](https://www.thebulletin.be/frans-cools-man-who-gave-belgium-balls-dies-93?utm_source=chatgpt.com)

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