Social housing stands empty

Brussels-based organisation Inter-Environnement Bruxelles has launched a campaign to raise public awareness of the amount of social housing in the city that remains unoccupied, despite the current stark housing shortage. Together with the Brussels environmental association BRAL and Rassemblement Bruxellois...

Palais de Justice gets new kind of renovation

One of Brussel’s most famous buildings, the enormous Palais de Justice, which was partly destroyed by the Nazis at the end of World War II, has been under renovation since the 1980s. Now it would seem that a new renovation...

More places in Brussels secondary schools

The city of Brussels has announced that it is to increase class sizes in the first year of its secondary schools for September 2009. The move follows a crisis caused by ‘multiple enrolment’ said the council – it seems many...

Museum for Paul Delvaux

Belgian senator Alain Destexhe has announced his plans to create a new museum in Brussels dedicated to 20th-century Belgian artist Paul Delvaux – best known for his paintings of stations and female nudes. Along with the new five-level Magritte museum...

Lighting for Brussels-Charleroi locks.

In a bid to integrate the port of Brussels and the nearby city, the council has announced that it is to spend between three and eight million euros lighting up the locks of the Brussels-Charleroi canal. By February 2010 the...

Boulevard de l’Impératrice gets face lift

The Boulevard de l’Impératrice in the heart of Brussels is being redeveloped at a cost €6.5 million, announced Brussels mayor Freddy Thielemans. Work, which began in May, will continue for 20 months, with the end result being, says Thielemans, a...