Lamp fill
In front of the Palais de Justice small cobble stones are inserted in the pavement. You will find a line of these, along the roadside. In 2016 these squares were circles. Not stone but glass. They still contained the fittings of lamps, although they were clearly at the end of their lives, which is now […] more…
Chair repair
Both sides of this seat back have been supported with a good bit of tape. The black duct tape and brown packing tape stylishly fuse with its surroundings. For live experience go eat at Thai restaurant Da-Kao II, the table in back, right corner. Excellent food. more…
Paalperk
Inventive use of a traffic cone; turned upside down, over a pole, filled with soil, greens root everywhere. more…
Patch + cone
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Watch out
A bit of metal tube sticks out of the pavement. A signage has been stuck on top of it to warn pedestrians. more…
Seat near end of life
square between Wasserijstraat + Rue des Tanneurs This area is under development. New façades are pasted over the old ones. The playing field is also gated. Looks like change is going to come. These low walls have been crushed by cars since forever. In a way it would be good to replace them, but it […] more…
Watch out, you are not being watched
Pedestrians coming from the main esplanade between the Luxembourg square and the European Parliament building are warned that they are leaving the area that is being surveilled by the V company. In other words: they are entering the city of Brussels. more…
Renewed corner
Rue de Flandre 66, Brussels Comparing the facade of this address to what it looked like ten years ago it is quite striking how little of it still remains. Not only has the window that got smashed time and again being replaced, so has the occupation of the shop, the company running the parking house […] more…
Blue EU concrete barriers
Rue Belliard, 1000 Brussels Concrete barriers have been placed along the Belliard street, to separate cars from pedestrians, cyclists, office buildings. I presume this is done in the spirit of wanting to prevent for deliberate attacks using the car as a weapon. Useless to say that cars are killing machine anyway, which is very noticeable […] more…
Incorporated fence
Parc de Cinquantenaire Corner Avenue de l’Yser / Tervurenlaan Next to the bit of decorative steel of the gate around the parc du Cinquantenaire that was eaten by a young tree in 2005 (see below), a big conifer is busy doing the same. The rapid growth of these trees is apparently not taken into account […] more…
Stick it up
Tape tape tape more…
Twisted signs
An effective way to attach a road sign: by twisting it tight with metal wire. more…
Carboard + rope
A complex way to block sight: cardboard being tied in front of a traffic sign with pieces of rope. At the entrance of the Red Axes, entrance Jubelpark, side of the EU more…
Red vinyl
Porte de Ninove Vintage vinyl tape solution to hold straight a traffic sign more…
Two handpainted one directions
This one is near the entrance of the Cinquantenaire parc. more…
Signs of complexity
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Narrow narrow
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Squeeze flash
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Circular traces
Rue du Marche au Charbon, Brussels 1000 A subtle trace drawn on the pavement near bar Au Soleil. Brussels street=cleaning cars have two spinning brooms at the front. They gather dirt between them which is then sucked into the reservoir of the car. Many streets which are not accessible for cars are shut of by […] more…
No raids here
Ieperlaan, 1000 Brussels Two banners over the entrance to the Salvation Army: ” we don’t allow razzias (FR) and No razzias at our place (NL)”. These banners have been put up at several organisations in protest against the neo liberal right wing federal government who are raiding organisations ‘suspected’ of having ties with terrorism. It […] more…
Box addition
Ieperlaan, 1000 Brussels Some years ago this odd intriguing reconstruction was started, but it got stuck along the way. Unfortunately it is not going forward at all and deteriorating rapidly. It does well as a weird urban folly. more…
L’Arabe … continues
This picture is a sequel to previous posts about the contestations of the text on the ‘monument to the Congo warriors’ in the Cinquantenaire parc which are in the ‘Congo Monument’ category. The scratching out and reinsertions of the words ‘arabe ‘ (fr) arabische (nl) is continuing. For more context on what is going on, […] more…
Smokers platform
October 2017, platform 3, North station, Brussels. A practical joke ? A citizens initiative to diminish the amount of cigarette buds on the pavement and propose an extra disposal next to the existing bags installed on the platform ? This ashtray has been glued to the garbage tray. It was actually used a lot, I […] more…
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. more…
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 […] more…
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 […] more…
Dyson art
Hand dryer installation in the mens room at the Cinquantenaire Museum for Art and History, Bxl more…
Frost shadow
Parc Maximilian, bxl more…
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. more…
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 […] more…
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