Justus-Lipsius building

The building Justus-Lipsius is the seat of the Conseil of the European Union to Brussels, named thus in the honor of Juste Lipse, a Philologue brabançon of the 16th century.

The complex is made of several buildings from six to eight levels, laid out around various raised patios. Its total surface area covers 215 000 m 2 divided into three distinct but closely dependant parts: the center of conferences, the secretariat and the infrastructure. The principal access rue de la Loi, opens on a broad main courtyard open to the public.

History

The building of the Council was built on a site formerly crossed by the street " Justus Lipsius " who connected the rue de la Loi to the street Belliard.

In 1985, the Council, in answer to an initiative of the Belgian government, has makes the decision to make build a new building adapted better to its needs and to entrust the control of work of it to the Control of the buildings of the Belgian State. The first stone of the new building is posed in 1989 on a ground offered by the State host and the solemn inauguration takes place the May 29th 1995, under the French presidency.

Many architects, engineers and companies coming from several Member States of the European Union took part in this building site of great scale, whose building “Justus-Lipsius” of the Council is the result.

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Photographs of the building

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