Comments on: This is how Brussels’ EU quarter could look like in 2025

By: Cinderella Misled

Cinderella Misled — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:47:49 +0000

Brussel’s capital region shamelessly used tax funds 20 year’s ago to build a never ending new Rue de la Loi. The project was presented by former Brussels minister Chabert as heaven on earth: hanging Babylonian gardens with sphere lights and nice pavement for passengers to walk or bike peacefully from Parc Cinquantenaire to Parc Royal…. Now they seem to be looking for a new project to shift a lot of money into the pockets..I just pray they will put enough garbage bins as these are sadly missing.

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By: european

european — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:57:48 +0000

Given the increasing role of new technologies (emails, internet, webbinars, conference calls, etc.), don’t you think the EU quarter map will rather look like a digital EU map…?

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By: Disappointed

Disappointed — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:53:58 +0000

Lovely. That cuts off the last significant drivable street that goes from E40 and the north-east into the city. I hope they are also planning a gigantic park-and-ride around Woluwe somewhere.

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By: dale

dale — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:56:25 +0000

The street lamps are great- shame, id miss them. They did move the biciycle path off the sidewalk, some improvements. But why do they need highrises? Perhaps they need to ensure that there is NO light in brussels to support innovation in sun tan booths. Perhaps it is a new Brussels agenda- By the year 2020, Brussels will have more tanning booths than pharmacies and hair salons…

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By: Kosmopolito

Kosmopolito — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:08:51 +0000

Indeeed, terrible plans. I can’t really see any improvement, somehow it does not look very different. Just a replacement of ugly medium sized office blocks with big ugly skyscrapers… and the street lamps seem to have transformed into trees.

By: hik

hik — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:44:52 +0000

To brusselsblogger
The EP can not be on the picture: it is on the right-bottom corner of the picture, behind the street…

By: David

David — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:04:53 +0000

These plans look absolutely ghastly. Brussels is not a high rise city and the high-rise buildings it has are amongst its ugliest.

The idea that people will want to live on rue de la loi is pure fantasy. That aspiration ended when they tore down the residential houses to build the present existing modern structures. They are about to commit the same mistake again although with taller structures.

Trees, Trams..? Don’t make me laugh! The artists just put then their to assuage the green lobby. They will never appear.

It will also condemn the area to years of building and construction that will no doubt go over budget and over schedule - and the EU will get all the blame for this from the euroscpetic lot. In short, this is hubris that will lead to nemesis.

By: brusselsblogger

brusselsblogger — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:29:07 +0000

I think the EP got cut off on the picture. But for some reason the urban design competition only took into account a very specific area around Rue de la Loi.