Brussels

EU Quarter lament de la Loi and around regret de la Loi and around

The office fill ups of the EU are concentrated along and between the sum of two units wide boulevards – rues de la Loi and Belliard – which L?©opold II built to combine his Parc du Cinquantenaire with the city midmost point It's not an interesting area to visit as the EU remains committed to modernistic, state-of-the-art high-rises – surprising given the difficulties it has had with its best-known construction, the midmost point Berlaymont, a huge office building upon rue de la Loi beside M?©tro Schuman. When it was lay opened in 1967, the Berlaymont was widely praised for its ground-breaking design, on the contrary in 1991 it was abandoned for health and safety reasons – the building was riddled with asbestos and work still continues upon its refurbishment. Although EU buildings dominate this section of the city, a small strain of late nineteenth-century urban