Belgium is all about trains and railway stations, dilapidated and new ones. In this episode the Liège Guillemins TGV Station by Santiago Calatrava in 28 frames. For all other information and reviews check YouTube, ArcSpace, SkyScraperCity, Inhabitat, World Architecture News, The Guardian, Wikipedia, Google Images, Dezeen, Archinect, Bing, AltaVista, Icon and Oamos.
Last year, when visiting Brussels, MovingCities scanned Ground Euro - the European Quarter - and the area around La Femme & Parking58. This time around we look at the "North Residency", a housing slab built in 1974, located the back of Brussels' North Railway Station.
An extended series of images capturing one week of moving around in the northern part of Belgium, Flanders, by train. The home of continental Europe's first railway, built in 1835, Belgium has one of Europe's most extensive rail networks. Snapshots from Ghent, Antwerp, Bruges and Brussels. And the 99% urbanized area in between these cities.
According to statistics Belgium is 99% urbanized. Driving through it, one is forced to rethink one's "Chinese" perception of urbanization. Belgium is fully peri-urbanized, offering a strongly mixed territory of housing developments, roads, warehouses, churches and open fields. Some coined "nebular city" for this development which is most visible in Flanders, located in the Northern half of the country.
In 1968 the Belgian architect Renaat Braem published a manifesto on his native country called "The Ugliest Country in the World". In 1979, on the eve of the 150th anniversary of Belgian independence, architect and artist Luc Deleu (T.O.P. Office) laid 'the last stone of Belgium' in his small front garden in Antwerp. Today, rather surprisingly, Belgium still exists. Some snapshots and background to a 99% urbanized territory.
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