Oh Belgium, I hate you and I love you for the mess you are

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  1. This is not even that bad when you’re talking about ugly houses, far worse offenders out there.

  2. So you don’t like this color? this is why belgium is a mess?

    Belgium is not a mess, we’re the best.

  3. It’s a worldwide phenomenon but purely functional design without any decoration looks really bad compared to even modest buildings from the time before modernism.

    We are building a very boring future.

  4. I thought this looked familiar…

    Karnemelkstraat, Roeselare. Barely a hundred meters from the biggest church in city center.

  5. Ah yeah. The thing is that I´m used to seeing the mix of different styles, colours and heights in our cities. If I go to France or Holland I get tired of walking the streets rather fast, because everything looks so samish. I like all the quirks and details in our streets.

  6. It is true that Belgium has some questionable architecture sometimes, but this is so much better than neighbourhoods where the houses all look almost exactly the same.

  7. if I ever came in a restaurant and asked for a steak and got the answer “oh, you can’t because the tables next to you are having fish” I’d leave

    why would someone not be allowed to build the house they like just because the neighbour liked a different house, those things are wholly unrelated and the fact that uninvolved people think they ought to have a say in the matter urks me even more

  8. If you have a glass plate against your wall your house has to break stile with the surroundings, it is the law.

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