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taboe
Join Date: Jan 2007
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BRUSSELS | NATO Headquarters | U/C
BRUSSELS (Zaventem)/New NATO headquarters
- Description: The NATO Headquarters, in Brussels, Belgium, is the political headquarters of the Alliance and the permanent home of the North Atlantic Council, NATO's senior political decision-making body. The new HQ will be gigantic:120.000 m2 and will be completed in 2012 Also check: http://www.assar.com/assar2/current.php and http://www.som.com/content.cfm/inter...n_headquarters - Cost: 300 million euro - Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merill assisted by Assar progress: preparatory work is being carried out. An old airport is being demolished to make way for the new complex. Renders: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Bark twice if in Milwauke
Join Date: Aug 2006
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taboe
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: antwerp
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an article in French:
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- Construction of the building itself starts at the end of next year and will be finished in 2013 - The new building is necessary because the old '60s buildings are falling apart. Apparently some of the old buildings were prefab and are extremely outdated. - The total cost of the project is apparently 1.4 billion euro. This huge investment confirms the tie between Brussels and NATO, and ensures the future of the Alliance using Brussels as its HQ. - There was an international architecture contest, blabla (read post 1) - The last paragraph recalls the troubled relationship between Belgium and the US a few years ago, when Belgium opposed the war in Iraq. Bush threatened to move NATO to Bonn if the Belgians didn't change their attitude. BTW: I'm a little disappointed about the lack of response so far, seeing how this is the new HQ for the second most important international political organisation... |
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From Holland with love
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Rotterdam / Berlin / London
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Wow! This building is huge.
Why don't they build a nice skyscraper to house all this office space?And where in Brussels is it located? That aereal shows something that looks like a industrial area, or am I wrong? Edit: sorry, I didn't read it well, it's located on an old airport. |
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Enschede/Oldenzaal
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Looks like airportterminals or something. Groundscrapers.
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taboe
Join Date: Jan 2007
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because NATO is a great target for terrorists, it would be a bit cautionless to build a 200m scraper...
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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I don't understand why it's in Brussels
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BAMMED
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Indianapolis, IN
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A nice building for a bad institution. All NATO is good for now is gobbling up former Soviet Republics to surround Russia and get control of the oil in Central Asia.
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Rotterdam / Vienna / London / Colorado Springs
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Looks really modern.
Nice.
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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really nice
it looks very very modern.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Quite a few war mongers will fit in that.
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Seems interesting - but what about the budget?!? 300 million euro for a 120.000 m2 building?!? Seems a bit underbudgeted.
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Like it Vertical
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Rotterdam, NYC
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A Huge bunker surrounded by parking lots... Must be a great place to visit when finished...
![]() But at least the design look OK, not that special though. |
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taboe
Join Date: Jan 2007
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that was the first number, but it seems now they count on spending 1.4 billion euro, for the entire project, that is (building, parking lots, roads surroundings,...)
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Thanks for the update - not really sure though, that I am on to this project.
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