Frédéric Moreau

Tweets in English, replies don't need to be. Articles about Brussels in the link.

[Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate]

STIB/MIVB knows how to accessorize.

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Foxes in architecture. Forest, Brussels.

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British week in Brussels, 1967. Place de Brouckère.

[Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate]

The Palace of Charles of Lorraine, Brussels. Home to a protestant chapel from 1816. Over the rest of the century, a knot of British-themed commerce sprang up between here and place Royale. Taverns (The Turf, Wellington etc), hotels, bookshops, travel agents, grocers, fixers.

[Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate]

Just behind Brussels cathedral, the 1921 Westminster Foreign Bank, built by the Franco-British duo Mewes & Davis, also responsible for the London Ritz and Luton Hoo

[The Brussels Times @BrusselsTimes]

While the Brussels traffic still snarls below on the Avenue Louise, the renovated icon promises energy-efficient luxury and a nostalgic nod to its 1960s origins. https://t.co/Lxc4nlInvC

[Leo Cendrowicz @LeoCendro]

The latest @BrusselsTimes Magazine is on sale now!
Few would tie Belgium to carmaking. Beer, chocolate, comic strips, Art Nouveau, yes.
But cars?
Yet, Belgians are pretty good it, with a remarkable record as automotive pioneers.
Cover art by @lectrr

[Leo Cendrowicz @LeoCendro]

We have three features on august Brussels venues reopening. @goodclimate writes about the Louise Tower, one of the city’s first skyscrapers in the city, a sleek, modernist, 1960s monument that has been stripped and remade for the 21st century.

[Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate]

@sim_palla There was a cycle lane when the road was brand new.

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@vivamjm Connexion reader can get knotted.

[Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate]

@nialloconghaile Discussions would be a good idea, rather than deliberately seeking opinions from guests who will torpedo all dialogue.

[Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate]

@nialloconghaile No idea, not a representative show. The intent is to stir the shit.

[Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate]

@nialloconghaile They're discussing this now on Any Questions on Radio 4 and I really should have turned off after listening to Mark Kermode. BBC news and current affairs output is not something I can stomach anymore.

[Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate]

@GAVClaw @aitorehm I think Aitor has the answers in the replies already. Imo, initially, shallow plots for stores, the lack of light pre-electricity and the preference for Parisian and then increasingly historicist 'Belgian' architecture are the main factors. And then department stores arrived.

[Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate]

@aitorehm @JF76 There are more than 5 and the really big ones date from after WW2. None of them has been a sustained success.

[Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate]

@NachoQuesado @nialloconghaile The UK has previous of overstayers running into the hundreds of thousands.

[Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate]

@RogerProtzBeer Is this not as low as Heineken went in the 80s?

[The Brussels Times @BrusselsTimes]

It was supposed to be Belgium’s El Dorado, but the little-known Caribbean colony in Guatemala would end in destitution, disease, dictatorship and disaster. https://t.co/d4mfJbKtF5

[Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate]

@vramosbis @MadridHack @nialloconghaile @HubertineAucler @jjsalmo @ElenaAdaal @DaclinMarc @Hugo_Arbuthnot @YouBrokeItMate @KlavsHenriksen Reach titles have been stirring things up for years now. Too many examples to name. They know people will only remember the headline.

[Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate]

@CraigWinneker They're a key stakeholder.