Urban(e)(istiques) Anomalie(ën)(s) Bru(x)(ss)el(le)(s)
Provisional structures
Symptomatic signage
Mobility
Your body is not yours
Inventive solutions
Blablah geographique
Intake Center A.U.B.
Uni-lingual etudes
Neighbourhood Technology
Deco demos
Sticky-city
Green greener greenest
Revisited anomalies
Car alterations
Video
Knots ties rope strings
Congo monument
Traffic cones
Cipher city
Cat houses
Airco adapts
Parot-crap-parking
Doorbells
Doorstop
15 Rue Vanderperren, Jette An improvised doorstop preventing the frontdoor of this apartment building to swing open widely.
Utility shack
Neerstalsesteenweg 76, 1190 Vorst.
Brick white squared cover
Augustijnerstraat, Jette, Brussels Contemporary solution to common problem: making sure filth or rain will not enter the cellar through the traditional ventilation grid. Here’s an equally beautiful, more Bric-à-brac style solution: http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=1097
Putting the L in nouvel
Gare du Nord, 1000 Brussels Renovation of the main hall is in full progress. Temporary signage is pointing travelers the way to the new entrance. An unfortunate translation mistake needed to be corrected on all posters. It became an adventure in individual letter placing and spacing.
Serious at work
café Lecoq, 1050 Ixelles, Bxl
New P
WTC, tower 1, Boulevard Albert II / Koning Albert II-laan 30, next to main entrance The World Trade Towers in Brussels were built in the 1970’s. One of the enterprises in the building is BNP Paribas, full name: Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, or in Dutch: Bank van Parijs en de Nederlanden. The P […]
Smeared Leopold sign
Corner Sint-Annakerkstraat / Rue de l’église Sainte-Anne + Blvd Leopold II laan, 1081 Koekelberg See also: Patrice Lumumba Laan Boulevard de la Honte/ Schande laan
Patrice Lumumba laan
Corner Rue Van der Noot straat + Boulevard Leopold II laan, 1080 Molenbeek Leopold II renamed to Boulevard Patrice Lumumba laan. See also: Boulevard de la Honte/ Schande laan Picture by Femke Snelting
Honte / Schande
Boulevard Leopold II, renamed to Rue de la Honte/Schandestraat (Following is translated from this webpage: https://3z5gorm1zxf7vqm2a0w6.oasis.sandstorm.io/index.html “In the night of Thursday, December 22, names of Brussels streets with colonial connotations were renamed to “Rue de la Honte / Straat van de Schaamte”: Street of Shame. This action aims at breaking with the glorification of the […]
Integrated street signs
Forêt de Soignes / Zoniënwoud Tumuli dreef, jonctions Kwekerij pad + Kornelius dreef 1560 Hoeilaart
Avis / Bericht
Not sure were I took this picture again, it has been a while .. The area on the wall carved in stone used to be a place to put up notices, it reads Avis / Berichten: A ‘message’ area. Now this parking meter takes the stage in a somewhat too centralised Oracle like position, as […]
C/Sigarettes
Spelling correction: in Dutch ‘cigarettes’ is spelled as ‘sigaretten’. This sign is on the balcony of the building that hosts cultural organisations such as Q-O2, FoAM and iMAL.
Protecting pallet
Ransfort straat, 1080, Molenbeek, BXL Temporary solution to protect water pump, built from a pallet, some decoration tape and left over planks.
Shopping monument
Avenue Emile De Mot, Brussels Student prank or post-capitalist consumer society critique ? Sculptures by Thomas Vinçotte are more often targeted by interventionists actions,such as his sculpture of Leopold II. This sculpture of a Horse taming boy is less obvious in its connection to representing Belgiums colonial history.
Bells galore
Rotterdam straat, 1080 BXL
Darth cake
Edible Star Wars tribute. Cheers. Bakery @ Jubelfeestlaan, 1080, Brussels
Dyson art
Hand dryer installation in the mens room at the Cinquantenaire Museum for Art and History, Bxl
Mailbox pipe
19 Avenue Paul Deschanel, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode No better place to pass a tube then through an already existing hole. Picture by Michel Cleempoel
Frost shadow
Parc Maximilian, bxl
Don’t hit your head protection
Brulabo, Avenue de Maelbeek 3, 1000 Bruxelles Seen during a visit on the occasion of the heritage days 2016: Cut open tennis balls serving as ‘don’t hit your head protection’, mounted at the ends of a cast iron staircase.
Black light
Sint-Gilliskerkstraat, 1060 Saint-Gilles Street light painted black in order not to intrude in private space. This is a second version of the wooden street light blocker: http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=1069 And one has to admit: it is effective, the light is not reaching the apartment windows on the left at all.
Molenbeek Gateway
Jonction Opzichterstraat and Rue Victor Jacobs, 1080, Brussels. Since several years, this large terrain vague in between Rue Vandenbogaerde and the Rue de l’Intendant, that is destined to be redeveloped is fenced off from the street.
Luminous green
Pavement in front of Palais de Justice. Greens flourish in moist protected warm underground shelters. Not sure if those lamps are still working.
Garbage routines
Bins in Brussels metro stations are closed for ‘security’ reasons. Temporarily , transparent bags are available for all your waste, but they do not allow for collecting separately plastic, paper and rest materials. In metro station Kunst-Wet / Arts-Loi, many people still respect the separation of waste by neatly piling up on top of the […]
Cat house collected pictures
Found back the original photo’s of a cardboard shelter for street cats developing over time. They were separately posted in the category Cat houses I post them here in their full resolution for the sake of my archive. First picture is taken in 2003, the last one November 2004.
Loui Sushi
Loui Sushi, Brusselbaan 102c, Brussels 1600. The name of this sushi restaurant made me think of a story by Louis Sassoie about how merchants on the flee market on Place du Jeu de Balle used to be known only by a nickname, usually consisting of their first name and something related to their trade. Having […]
Sturdy upgrade
Be careful while parking, this orange cone is re-enforced with a steel rod and base. Avenue Fonsny
Breath of air
cone + chain
Hovenierstraat, 1080 Molenbeek Bxssl Garage Privé, parking reserved
Pavers rearranged
Rue de Merode, 1060, Saint-Gilles Stack of pavement tiles reordered into temporary skateboard object. Note the bridge in the middle.
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