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Benonie · #**321** Posted **Jul 1, 2014, 12:01 PM**

Thank you Shiro!

Benonie · #**322** Posted **Jul 1, 2014, 2:39 PM**

Benonie · #**323** Posted **Jul 8, 2014, 3:26 PM**

Benonie · #**324** Posted **Jul 22, 2014, 3:01 PM**

george · #**325** Posted **Aug 8, 2014, 8:26 PM**

Great shots & old buildings!

Benonie · #**326** Posted **Feb 13, 2015, 5:27 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by george

Great shots & old buildings!

Thanks George!

Dr Awesomesauce · #**327** Posted **Feb 14, 2015, 8:25 AM**

Been checking in with this thread for what seems like years. Always a pleasure. Keep 'em coming!

Benonie · #**328** Posted **Feb 14, 2015, 7:34 PM**

Thanks a lot Doctor! Some more pics:

Benonie · #**329** Posted **Feb 19, 2015, 10:53 PM**

mousquet · #**330** Posted **Feb 21, 2015, 3:38 AM**

Lol tu nous refourgues des photos datées, chien du chien.

The Up-Site tower seen on the last picture right above was completed a while ago yet. This is it for anyone curious:

http://www.pss-archi.eu/forum/viewto...477046#p477046

I think at 140m, it's taller than any residential highrise anywhere in France... Yep, the French tallest residential is still Défense 2000 (thus in la Défense), at 136m, built 1974!

Hélas, le fin du fin n'a plus droit de cité par ici.

J'sais pas trop pourquoi. Ca suscite trop de jalousies, je suppose. C'est idiot car c'est comme ça qu'on manque d'inspiration de nos jours. Sans quoi tu verrais des gens habiter à 400m de haut en plein Paris, dans des apparts de furieux mégalomanes à 100M€.

Moi ça me ferait marrer honnêtement. Et puis surtout ce serait très utile pour hausser les standards locaux. C'est comme ça que je fais le petit calcul. Tu vois ? Bref, toujours cool, ce thread. Je crois bien qu'il n'y a plus guère que les vieux pour faire des blagues sur les Belges en France...

SHiRO · #**331** Posted **Feb 21, 2015, 3:17 PM**

Even my city (population 210,000) has a 142m residential

mousquet · #**332** Posted **Feb 21, 2015, 7:46 PM**

^ Yeah well, you shouldn't be boasting too much about it. Do you want your little Netherlands invaded? I mean like it could be annoying, eh.

SHiRO · #**333** Posted **Feb 22, 2015, 1:55 PM**

The days of Napoleon are long gone..

In fact I'm going to the 200 year anniversary of Waterloo in June to see a re enactment of him getting his ass kicked...

https://www.waterloo2015.org/nl

mousquet · #**334** Posted **Feb 22, 2015, 2:47 PM**

You'll like it, the battle seems to have been epic. If I remember well, in fact if it hadn't rained the day before, the French would've won just as usual. But it was enough of the emperor anyway.

Benonie · #**335** Posted **Mar 8, 2015, 9:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by mousquet

Lol tu nous refourgues des photos datées, chien du chien.

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The Up-Site tower seen on the last picture right above was completed a while ago yet. This is it for anyone curious

Okay, you're right! Here are some more recent pictures, I took about a month ago:

mousquet · #**336** Posted **Mar 8, 2015, 9:48 PM**

Super. Toute proportion gardée, il y a un p'tit feeling downtown Captain America en émergence, c'est très rafraîchissant.

Benonie · #**337** Posted **Mar 9, 2015, 12:37 PM**

De rien et merci bien, Mousquet!

Benonie · #**338** Posted **Mar 22, 2015, 9:50 AM**

Benonie · #**339** Posted **Mar 22, 2015, 9:52 AM**

Back to the city center:

Belgian Comic Strip Center, chronicles the history of Belgian comics. Housed in a former art nouveau department store designed by famous Victor Horta.

Benonie · #**340** Posted **Mar 22, 2015, 9:53 AM**

On the opposite side of the road, in a former newspaper publisher building, there's another comic strip museum run by the
Marc Sleen Foundation. Marc Sleen is a Flemish cartoonist who draws the in Belgium popular Nero-cartoons.