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After ten years of design and construction work
on an exceptional scale, Philippe Samyn, architect
and engineer, is handing over to the European
Council and the Council of the European Union
a representative building in Brussels destined to
convey the executive power of Europe: summits of
heads of state and government leaders; councils of
ministers.
Commemorating the building’s inauguration,
Elements Europa presents the completion phases
of the building and its facilities. In doing so,
the book attempts to interpret an architecture
conceived – in its overall structure and all its
details, in its representative functions and in
its decor – to radiate the shared power of the
European Union’s twenty-eight member states.
PhiliPPe SAmyn is a civil engineer, JeAn ATTAli has a PhD in philosophy
architect and planner and has a PhD and was Professor of Urban
in applied science. he founded the Planning and Urban Design at the
architects and engineers office Paris-malaquais national School of
Philippe SAmyn and PARTneRS in 1980. Architecture.
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