Brussels 1958 Universal Exhibition

Expo 58, also known as the Brussels World’s Fair, was held from April 17 to October 19, 1958.[1] It was the first major World Expo registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) after World War II. Nearly 15,000 workers spent three years building the 2 km2 (490 acres) site on the Heysel plateau, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) northwest of central Brussels, Belgium. Many of the buildings were re-used from the Brussels International Exposition of 1935, which had been held on the same site.[2] The site is best known for the Atomium, a giant model of a unit cell of an iron crystal (each sphere representing an atom). More than 41 million visitors visited the site,[4] which was opened with a call for world peace and social and economic progress, issued by King Baudouin I. The artist , Leo Marfurt, uses a stylized version of the Atomium as the centerpiece of this design to promote the Exhibition. Leo Marfurt (1894–1977) was a Swiss-Belgian commercial artist, best known for his