The symbolic EU plaza has become a barren concrete lagoon, after three years of building work
The man who redesigned the iconic Schuman roundabout, at the heart of the European quarter, has delivered a scathing verdict on the final result.
“We ended up really with the square that nobody wanted,” said Francis De Wolf, the leading Belgian architect on the project, told Euractiv.
He blamed bickering politicians and petty Belgian bureaucracy for undermining the three-year project, which is close to being completed without the centrepiece of his design: a circular polished steel canopy with a green roof in the shape of the European Parliament’s hemicycle.
“It would have created a huge amount of shadow on the square to make [it] more habitable,” said De Wolf.
