Belgium’s big building and renovation fair has taken to the interwebs. Batibouw promises an experience as close to the real thing as possible: Visitors complete a profile and get their own virtual host who will lead them to the businesses and products they are looking for. Consultations with...

A new gallery is opening next month in Brussels, and the first show is made up of originals by legendary street artist Banksy. Deodato Art will open Banksy: The Brussels Show on 25 March. The new gallery on Rue Saint-Jean near Mont des Arts is owned by Deodato Salafia, who already has three outlets...

The old lifts that are still found in many buildings in Brussels can be considered part of the architectural heritage of the Brussels region, according to the city’s secretary of state for urbanism and heritage. To protect them from mandatory modernisation, Pascal Smet announced on Wednesday that...

A motion has been tabled by the majority parties in Brussels, asking the regional government to submit a request to the Belgian Royal Donation to open up part of the Royal Park of Laeken to the public. While the request is not a new one – many previous attempts to open the park up have been made by...

A baby hatch will not be installed in Evere, much to the disappointment of the non-profit organisation that has been fighting for it for several years. A baby hatch is a safe place for parents – usually mothers – to leave newborn babies who they cannot care for. The idea is to prevent babies from...

While there were understandably fewer transactions last year in the housing market in Brussels, prices went up by an average of over 7%. Two municipalities are largely responsible for that: In Saint-Gilles, houses and apartments together increased in price by no less than 19% on the previous year,...

An investigation into offensive representations of Jews on show at last year’s Aalst carnival is still ongoing, prompting anger and consternation among the anti-discrimination groups which submitted the original reports 12 months ago. During the carnival on 23 February 2020, several performances...

The City of Brussels has proposed a new special zoning plan at the city council meeting on Monday evening which would ensure more diversity in terms of trade, so that businesses in the city centre are not only aimed at attracting tourists. At the moment, the city centre is mostly home to businesses...

Brussels-City council has amended the legislation around its administrative sanctions, known as SAC fines. Minors aged 16 and 17 can now be given one of the fines in lieu of appearing in court. SAC fines are legislated at the local level and so are not the same in every municipality. In Brussels-...

A sheep on a Limburg farm has given birth to sextuplets, or six healthy baby lambs. An extremely unusual occurrence, the odds of it happening and all the lambs surviving are about one in 50 million. The event is made all the more remarkable as it followed a quintuplet birth at the farm in Riemst...