Ode to the Ugly Belgian House – or – The European Union at Home

There it stands: brick by brick, half-finished, oddly proportioned, unmistakably itself — the ugly Belgian house. Its façade is a patchwork of mismatched bricks, a balcony added as an afterthought, a roof improvised from the cheapest solution available that year. The windows don’t align, the colours argue with each other, and yet somehow, it all […]