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When European leaders meet for the first time in their new headquarters, known as the Europa and built for about 325 million euros, or $340 million, they will experience “joyful” surroundings, Philippe Samyn, the project’s architect, said during a recent tour of the building.
It has been a long time since any gathering of the bloc’s leaders could be described as joyful.
— the New York Times
The building is described as a "giant glowing orb" or a "vase". It also includes a restored hallways from the building the previously occupied the site, the former headquarters for the Nazis when they occupied Brussels during the war.The orb is encased in a glass cube. The structure symbolically... View full entry
