Gare du nord / Noordstation, south entrance on bus platform. Some technical defect causes these doors to open and close endlessly.more…
Orange hook
Financial Tower, Kruidtuin / site former RAC CAE Many examples of reparations done with tape can be found in this category, most of them are small scale DIY temporary solutions. These two construction workers use tape on a larger scale: on the 20th floor (or there about) of the Financietoren / Tour de Finance they […]more…
Klink, poigné
Ladies room, Bozar / Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles Bilingual alteration on a note pasted inside the women’s toilets of the Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, explaining how this doorknob works in dutch and french. To close the door Push the button in the middle To open the door Turn button handle to the right If […]more…
Zelfbouwbus
Rue du Rempart des Moines, corner Dansaert straat Rows of connecting holes, made in the metal plated door using a power drill, constitute this home made letter box. See earlier letter box related entries: Brievendoos Pas de boite aux lettresmore…
No entry
Rue du Chantier, Vandernootstraat, Rue Bodeghem Three examples of a common sight; twisted and turned city signs infusing new vibes to traffic instruction. See for remote, mostly american, examples of disrupted signage the SIGN category of the This is broken blog. The blog aims to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how […]more…
23*90
Metro Porte de Hal Tram 23 renamed 90 or line 90 as 23? Photo by Femke Sneltingmore…
DE/Het
Passage to metro Rogier, shopping center City II A tiny correction made to this message of the ING bank, stating that the Ministery of Internal Affairs no longer permits the bank to receive enveloppes which contain coins in its nightsafe. ‘DE cliënteel’ is changed to ‘Het’.more…
Boo/erderij
Ferme du parc Maximilien, Chaussee d’Anvier / Antwerpse Steenweg, crossing Boulevard Boudewijn Laan On a multiplex plate, attached to the entrance gate of the children’s farm in the small Parc Maximilien, the word Boerderij; Dutch for Farm, has been spelled incorrectly with two O’s as BOOrderij. Using woodpaste and some extra cutting the second O […]more…
Expaal
In front of the entrance to Bozar at Rue Royale, this left over of a lamppost is currently in use as non comformist public trashcan.more…
Geld/t
At the service desk of the Mediamarkt Rue Neuve I saw this corrected message. A waiting customer had added this ‘t’ to a Dutch verb which was not spelled correctly. Now it is better.more…
Chopped wood + metal
Avenue de l’Yser When making this photo on March 13, 2005, I enjoyed the prospect of returning here on a nice spring day sometime in the future to make a picture of the new branches that would sprout from the block. Unfortunately the piece of wood that looked so inseparably intertwined with the decorative arrowheads […]more…
Wood troisieme age
Rue Lambermont On february 24, 2005 I first spotted this piece of wood hanging over the pavement at Rue Lambermont, near the Belliard straat. Now, one year later it is still there, holding on, it has just aged a little. Looking in detail at the electric wire that is tied around the wood it appears […]more…
U+W turns U
On Februari 24 2005, I uploaded this image of a corrected text on a sticker in Rue Royale. In Dutch ‘Your street’ is written as: ‘Uw straat’ in stead of ‘U straat’ as was printed on the sticker. Now after roughly one year the sticker is still there, but the language correction has faded. So […]more…
Perron direction sud, Pre Metro Gare Rogier See also: M (NL+E) = N (F) http://www.constantvzw.com/westenberg_archive/cat_unilingual_etudes.html#000954more…
A scetch by Jacques Lizene for a Genetic Sculpture. It shows a morph between the Walone Cock and the Flamish Lion. On the left side: the original idea from 1984: a cock with the legs of a lion, the right side shows the ‘remake’ from 1989: a lion with the legs of a cock. Although […]more…
Für het pays
A design for a publicity strategy comunicating in a mix of the three official Belgian languages. It was designed to announce the change in constitution on the ocassion of the official transformation of Belgium to a Federation. The design is part of the exhibition De Belgische Vertoning 1830 – 2005, Symbols, Rituals and Myths in […]more…
Postkot
A DIY collective postbox for the inhabitants of Rue des Fleuristes 57. Not far from there, another example of the same species can be spotted: Update july 2018: Both these letter boxes are gonemore…
Congo monument extended
For the website of the Afrika-Vereniging van de Universiteit Gent Lucas Catherine wrote a short article about the political corrections on the Congo monument in the Jubelpark.more…
Since Kattenkot1and Expanding Kattenkot I haven’t been posting images of changes to the Cat shelter on the Varkensmarkt for a while; simply because nothing much happend to it. The construction had reached a more or less stable situation in which only minor changes occurred. On Sunday May 22nd the shelter suddenly dispeared. The shelter was […]more…
( —– ) Shop
Corner Rue des six jetons / Van Arteveldestraatmore…
Place Bourse / Auguste Orts straat On March 19th a big demonstration took place in Brussels. The Marriott hotel on the Rue A.Orts 3-7 covered its name out of fear for anti-American sentiments which might arise during the manifestation.more…
Dangling woodblock
Rue Lambermont A tree has been chopped down in the small parc surrounding the Palais des Academies on the side of Lambermontstraat. One of the tree’s branches which reached over the fence has previously been used to tie up an electricity wire. The workers who removed the tree cut this branch on both sides of […]more…
