In a bid to tackle its housing crisis, Brussels is building upwards. Across the Belgian capital, new residential or mixed-use towers are springing up.
These aren’t supertalls, but they’re significant by local standards, and they stand to reshape the skyline within a few years. For some, the wave of high-rises is also stirring unwelcome memories of an earlier era of urban development, and the pejorative term it inspired: Brusselisation.
