Unbuild Brussels
End 1960s came a Plan to install a office complex north of city center
sadly it became megalomaniacal nightmare:
PLAN MANHATTAN
Original planned as World Trade Center near North railway station.
it soon Mutated to Belgium version of Paris
La Defence,
Thanks to ambitious officials and highly corrupt politician with construction promoter.
up to 60~120 office blocks build over motorway interchange that would build true Brussels !
For this the entire district North in Brussels was demolish for building that never came,
so what happen ?
The first years of project face bankrupt of building contractors do lack of Money by City and Government...
Then happen the 1973 oil crisis and following economic crisis in Belgium.
Next to that were old plans obsolete to new situation and mid 1970s all work on Plan Manhattan stop.
Leaving wasteland for decades, were once 10000 people lived.
End 1990s start redevelopment of the area as smaller office district
This let to therm
Brusselisation or how to destroy a city with construction promoter and architects.
If someone from Brussels calls you a
Architect they mean it as insult...
In french
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYVqdxzp0QY
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