[HN Gopher] Flies in the evidence room: Inside Belgium's rotting...
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Flies in the evidence room: Inside Belgium's rotting Justice Palace
Author : Geekette
Score : 21 points
Date : 2025-05-03 11:16 UTC (2 days ago)
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| biglyburrito wrote:
| https://archive.md/Y8hSl
| rwmj wrote:
| I often wondered about this building when attending FOSDEM.
| fvdessen wrote:
| This 'courthouse' is not just any courthouse, it's the biggest
| courthouse in the world, it is so big that it was the biggest
| building in the world until NASA made the VAB to build Saturn V.
| Bigger than St-Peter's Cathedral, it is a demented place erected
| at the top of Belgium then industrial might, costing then more
| than half the entire state budget for public construction during
| the 20 years it took build. The architect was given unlimited
| budget and complete freedom. It was supposed to be even bigger
| with a ziggurat styled tower to top it off but the architect died
| before the completion of the building. A more reasonable golden
| dome was constructed instead. Still to this day nobody
| understands how this was allowed to be made, and it is way too
| expensive to maintain, and has thus fell in disrepair, but it is
| also too big and too incredible to demolish
|
| There are renovation works ongoing, I jumped a fence and took a
| sneak peak, and I think it's going to be great.
|
| Here is a website with some pictures: -
| https://tchorski.fr/12/palais-01.htm -
| https://tchorski.fr/12/palais-10.htm
| avhception wrote:
| Wow, mindblowing! Now that's a white elephant of a building if
| I've ever seen one!
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