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Sobieski Park
The Florist’s Gardens, above Sobieski Park, has been renovated in the last few years, most recently after a competition for designing urban furniture that has left this space with a refreshing blend of innovative design and practical functionality. The layout is a subtle and balanced mixture of traditional patterns [...]

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Here’s a prediction for next December; No body will be wishing for a white Christmas.
When it comes to the never ending bad weather, we’re all feeling a bit like Al Pacino in Godfather III, when he said, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”
Spring seems a long [...]

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Underground Art
The Brussels Metro is the nations largest art gallery, with artists being invited to decorate each station.
This is Maelbeek, where Brussels artist, Jaques Benoit made tiles containing simple line drawings of people. Although simplistic, they have an elegance and add a little charm to this otherwise cold and bleak station.

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Bedroom Art at Hotel Bloom, rue Royale
One of the city’s coolest hotels has been host to an unusual project to support young European artists. After going through a selection process a group of painters get the chance to put their designs on the walls of a hotel bedroom.
This gives them exposure, but more importantly, experience [...]

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Viscount Montgomery
Montgomery Roundabout
Overlooking one of Brussels most notorious roundabouts is a statue of the man it was named after. It’s said that only Montgomery could keep the traffic in order. He has a long – and painful – association with Belgium, being wounded here in WWI to his liberation of the city in WWII. He [...]

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Jing by Matthieu Michotte
Outside the Saint-Michel et Gudule Cathederal
“Jing” is an item that carries a trace, imprint, message etc…
Who has never dreamt of leaving behind a message, a design, a text that defies time and can be expressed freely. It is an intoxicating idea to be able to leave a word in a place where [...]

Heavenly Lanterns

Gu Wenda, Heavenly Lanterns
Dynasty Building, Mont des Arts
This Tea House has been created by an exciting Chinese artist who covered the building with 5,000 lanterns, using his themes of calligraphy and gives something traditional a modern twist that manages to be both western and eastern. Enjoy it from the outside, in its magnificent setting, then [...]

Park Life

Dan Graham, Two Two Way Mirror Half Circles,
Champ de Mars, Rue Trone
This New York artist has an unusual sculpture in this park. Off-centre transparent semi circles face each other. From the outside it is nothing special, but once inside, especially when sunny, it transforms. Your reflections, seemingly holographic, merge and distort giving the experience a [...]

Painting Provence

American artist Patricia Clendening Buzzerio had her artistic spirit awakened when she lived in Provence. By taking up a paintbrush she was influenced by her mother, who was a gifted artist in stained glass, and this is evident in her use of colour and light in her work. She describes her style as “letting the [...]

Baron Jean de Selys Longchamps

This golden pilot marks the scene of a heroic attack on the morning of January 20th, 1943 from a lone Belgian pilot on a mission over Flanders, diverted his Typhoon without permission and flew low over Brussels and let rip with cannon fire at the Gestapo HQ at 453 Avenue Louise, threw out a Belgian [...]