Royal Gallery of Saint Hubert

This guide to the Royal Gallery of Saint Hubert in Brussels traces the dark warren of alleys that stood here in the eighteen thirties, and the young architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar's dream of replacing it with a covered street of iron and glass. It follows the nine bitter years of forced buyouts that cleared the ground, including the grim story still told of a barber who wouldn't leave his shop, before construction itself raced ahead in barely thirteen months. Look up as you walk through: two hundred meters of glazed ceiling stretch overhead through three connected galleries.