Soft metallic resonances in the heart of Brussels
Xavier Lust has been given the chance to implement his urban furniture right in the center of Brussels on the Mont des Arts, rue de la Régence and rue Ravenstein. We offer you a visual tour in the atmosphere of the day 1 of the launching of this new design initiative promoted by Henri Simons in charge of urban planning and culture at the City of Brussels. Let’s hope that the contemporary feel and touch of the benches, picnik sittings and the perfectly integrated bus stop will catch the eye and interest of a large public. We will all do our best to convince Brussels to keep it for a long time and not only until October 2006 when it should normally be dismantled. We need your support and comments to go on with this kind of contemporary projects for the capital of Europe!
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This is a very encouraging initiative. The furniture makes much more sense than those ridiculous JCDecaux neo-art-nouvau pieces. Their discretion puts the focus back on the buildings that make our city.
I’ve come to notice the benches are paticularily appreciated by taggers. The first question that comes to my mind is if those would bare any message : is it a sign of appreciation, are the benches some “cool places to put your tag”, or should we see signs of disaprobation, or disrespect in some way, maybe because they could be seen as bourgeois whims? The same fenomena can be seen on the new cyclocity screens, and on the wifi-installations.
But has the problem been thought about? Are the benches easily washable? Many public benches up to now avoided the problem altogether by using materials that can’t be tagged on (wood and perforated alluminium).
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