Planners like to make sure that new buildings are in keeping with the character of the neighbourhood. Something tells me that not many people would get away with this:
But that is an EU building in the EU district of Brussels. Now I’m all for a good glass and steel building, but there’s something about the scale of these things, and knowing how many people must be behind all those windows, all leeching off the rest of us, that’s quite ominous.
Round the corner from there is this place:
How tedious. Apart from the ice cream, obviously. Thankfully no-one was there doing any of these things.
You’re probably not going to like me for saying this, but I really like it. Especially the way it towers over those houses.
I don’t dislike it all that much myself, and it’s certainly impressive; I just think there’s a double standard somewhere. If it was a building full of engineers and programmers working for a private company I would thoroughly approve — but then it would never have been allowed to be built there.
This reminds me of a Sky Scraper that was building in New York. Basically, they build the thing on stilts so the base of it was essentially hanging above a church (that refused to move). Pretty awesome stuff! I think the church has since been destroyed.