We don’t have the beautiful building uniformity of Paris, the smart town-planning of London or the museum-like quality of Amsterdam. What Brussels does have is a crazy mix of 19th century brick town houses with concrete mid-century office blocks. And it’s the latter that has a bad reputation in Brussels. As a consequence of the Brussels world exposition of 1958, Belgians capital fell victim to genuine construction fever. Driven by great optimism, architects went in search of a renewed modern style, enriched by transparency, poetry or colour. Read the rest of this entry »