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April 15, 2026 Street scenes - buildings Post a Comment

The building that needs to vomit

Dumped debris at a building being renovated

“A drunkard is a dead man,
And all dead men are drunk.”

(W.B. Yeats in A drunken man’s praise of sobriety)
Eindhoven (NL)

November 27, 2025 Street scenes - buildings Post a Comment

The gate is open during renovation works

Eupen (B)

May 14, 2025 Street scenes - buildings Post a Comment

A stairway to heaven?

The renovation of a house with a construction of all kinds of wooden stairs

“I’ve been walking through the middle of nowhere
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door”

(Bob Dylan in Tryin’ to get to heaven)
Esneux (B)

November 6, 2024 Street scenes - buildings 1 Comment

Pudding met vel

“Rumpumpel will essen,
nun fix gebraten:
ein Kätzel, ein Spätzel
und sieben Soldaten.

Das gibt einen Pudding
so groß wie ein Haus.
Zuletzt leckt Rumpumpel
die Kuchenschüssel aus.”

(P. D. Fehmel in der Pudding)
Leuven (B)

July 5, 2023 Culture of Industry, What has been left

Revitalisation Urbaine ….

“Diese Stadt hat mich belehrt,
Paradies und Hölle
können eine Stadt sein.
Für die Mittellosen
ist das Paradies die Hölle.”

(B. Brecht in Hollywood-Elegien, no. 1)
Verviers (B)

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The building that needs to vomit

The gate is open during renovation works

A stairway to heaven?

Pudding met vel

Revitalisation Urbaine ….