Vintage elements from North Station to go on sale to the public

As the renovation of North Station continues, some vintage elements of the building are being carefully disassembled and offered up for sale to the public. Roter Deconstruction, a collective of architects and designers, are salvaging much of the station’s interior, including tiles and light fixtures.

Rotor specialises in the recuperation of usable materials from buildings that are undergoing renovation or are scheduled to be demolished. They clean the recuperated elements up and resell them.

Included in the North Station project are 1930s lighting elements, wooden handrails, marble wall tiles dating from the 1970s and the station’s tell-tale brown and beige floor tiles. “The tiles will first be cleaned and all the adhesive removed,” Lionel Billiet of Rotor told Bruzz. “They are 15 by 15 centimetre ceramic tiles from the early 1950s. In total there are 600 square metres available. So everyone can take a piece of North Station home.”

Rotor is also helping dismantle other buildings in Brussels at the moment, including the interior of the Philip Tower, an office building on Place De Brouckère. It sells the salvaged materials on its website. The North Station pieces are scheduled to be available in about two weeks.