Royal Gallery of Saint Hubert
Glazed nineteenth-century shopping arcade of iron and glass, lined with chocolatiers, cafes and a historic theater.
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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.
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