Stone town houses and Art Nouveau facades line a tram boulevard from Place Louise to the Bois de la Cambre.
What Avenue Louise looks like
Avenue Louise runs 2.7 km south-east from to the Bois de la Cambre. Its northern stretch is sunken, with three tunnels under the crossings. Trams 8 and 93 run the length of the avenue on their own track, except through the short bottleneck at the top.
The tree-bordered part of the avenue begins at , where a long fountain basin runs across the square and luxury shops line its edges. Tram rails run along the pavement there. At the , a large tree stands on the pavement and the tram tracks run alongside.
Town houses built by 1905 line the avenue, and Victor Horta's Art Nouveau houses stand among them. The at number 224 dates from 1895 to 1903. Its curved stone front has bay windows and iron balconies.
Office towers from the 1960s and 1970s rise among the older houses. The at number 124 dates from 1965, and the at 324 to 326 from 1976. A glass office block at number 283 sits beside a stone house.
The avenue ends at the , a roundabout flanked by two twin neoclassical pavilions. The Bois de la Cambre begins beyond it.
Shot in Avenue Louise
Stromae's video for Formidable was shot at the tram and metro station at the top of the avenue. The clip shows the station itself, with Stromae moving among the trams.
Formidable, Stromae, 2013
Hidden cameras were set around the station for the shoot. The clip was shot on the Louise bottleneck, a crossroads with a tram stop and a jammed roundabout. Street View
Avenue Foch in the 16th arrondissement is lined with chestnut trees and grand palaces. The stone town houses along the tree-bordered stretch at Place Stéphanie come closest to those palaces in scale, so the match works on the house fronts. Avenue Foch is 120 metres wide along its gardens, so frame tight on the house fronts rather than the roadway. Try searching grand palaces now.
Avenue Mozart in Paris, France
Avenue Mozart in the same arrondissement is lined with plane trees on both sides, and one of its apartment blocks at numbers 1 to 5 was built in 1907 and 1908. The avenue is only 20 metres wide, so it matches the tree line rather than the boulevard. Its one-way traffic and plane trees on both sides give it away in a wide shot, so frame tight on a single block of house fronts. Try searching apartment blocks now.
