Mum sent me a link to Design Boom's latest 'reportage' from Brussels: Jean Nouvel's plan to remodel the capital's infamous Midi Station. It's an important and iconic place from many respects: the Eurostar terminal is found here, and is by far the most misleading and disappointing introduction to Brussels (especially that dreadful exit down those stairs and that endless search for the right bus to take only to find out the W operates once a decade...), the Saturday Marche de Midi is still one of the city's best - I have fond memories of incredible loaves of crusty bread, bags of seasonal cherries, and that bike market (my first and last old fashioned city bike, loved and left to rust for €20); and of course the anthropological feast and patriotic foire that relentlessly comes to town every summer - best chips and beer encountered. BREF I love Midi, especially for its beautiful inadequacies, the fact that it appears so unappealing. It's another one of those things about Brussels that is almost a best kept secret.
WOW renderings @ Jean Nouvel. Still not sure about it though. A slick Midi just doesn't feel right.
My Midi.
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