The JDS VMTN model is on display at the Building for Brussels Exhibition in the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (BOZAR) from 9.10-28-11-2010.
Background info on Building for Brussels:
In 2007, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the Centre for Fine Arts organized the exhibition A Vision for Brussels – Imagining the Capital of Europe. An international team of architects around Pier Vittorio Aureli and Joachim Declerck, from the Berlage Institute, presented the results of a research into various possibilities of Brussels as capital of Europe. Today, three years later, we are continuing the thread of this reflection. Together with Emir Kir, secretary of state of the Brussels Capital Region, in the frame of the Belgian presidency of the European Union, we are presenting an exhibition Building for Brussels – Architecture and Urban transformation in Europe. With the starting point of the challenges which Brussels as a capital is facing on the eve of an unseen demographic expansion, Joachim Declerck, from Architecture Workroom Brussels, examines a series of European urban development projects and their relevancy for the capital of Europe. Building for Brussels makes it clear that architecture and city building are more than just the aesthetic side of a city management: they are one of the main tools to answer the challenges of a capital city and to shape our social life and our patrimony for tomorrow. On the one hand, these two exhibitions show our involvement and our will to take part in the debate on the future development of Brussels as capital of Europe and on the other hand they are part of the role which the Centre for Fine Arts of Brussels plays as a platform for the international architectural culture. As a cultural hub, Bozar is the place for local talents to be offered an international stage and at the same time, it plays the role of a go-between attracting and involving international experts. And thus we add our contribution to a capital which should develop a truly European dimension also from the architectural point of view.
Paul Dujardin
General Director, Centre for Fine Arts
Building for Brussels