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New Brussels residents will soon be able to discover the city with their own 'buddy'. The CoNnect project brings new arrivals and current residents together to get to know each other and their perspective on life in Brussels.
Située à la rue des Francs à Ixelles, la Maison Cauchie, reconnue pour sa façade extraordinaire conçue par l'architecte et décorateur Paul Cauchie, peut à nouveau ouvrir ses portes au grand public.
Leisure 06:09 The Brussels Region is studying the practical feasibility of installing a swimming pool on the roof of Manufakture, the multifunctional food complex proposed for the Abattoir site, the oldest former cattle market in Anderlecht. The proposal for the feasibility study, presented by Secretary of State in charge of Urbanism, Pascal Smet, Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region Rudi Vervoort, and Mayor of Schaerbeek Bernard Clerfayt, was given the green light by the capital's authorities this week. The site is currently home to Foodmet, a food hall with more than 50 stalls ...
Culture 21:59 09/05/2021 A classification procedure has been launched to protect rare mural paintings produced by Hergé, the world-known inventor of Tintin, when he was 15 years old and a member of a scout troop. In a small room, eight metres by three - a former garage on the grounds of the Institut Saint-Boniface in Ixelles - the walls are covered with original stencilled drawings: scouts on all fours or climbing rope, 35 galloping knights, American Indians and a large map of Belgium. These mural paintings, brownish-green, in poor condition, are now the subject of a classification procedure...
Living 07:27 The redevelopment of the Schuman square at the heart of the European quarter in Brussels has taken a step closer to approval after a conciliation committee delivered a favourable opinion on the updated plans. The committee reviewed an adapted proposal which included more trees and benches after a number of changes to the original plan were presented by urban.brussels, the urban administration, in consultation with Brussels Mobility. An international architecture competition for the redevelopment of Schuman was won in December 2017 by the Danish agency COBE in collaboration with t...