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Tour Martini
THE DEATH OF A TOWER |
"“Brussels is a paradox: a plastic, visual, aesthetic by default, multi-cultural and multi-architectural chaos, a rich and unique urban collage, dirty and ugly, beautiful and anarchic, born of a some real estate activism in collaboration with politicians... Do we need an urban policy, going further than the current fussy and backward-looking urban planning regulations, to cultivate the paradoxical charm of a badly licked city and eliminate its excesses? | ||||||||||||||||
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NEW 09/21 The video Martini Ground Zero is online here, links are updated (thanks to Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine) !
From September 17, 20O1 to June 13, 2002, a video camera filmed image by image the slow death of the Martini Tower (Center International Rogier), symbol of the daring urban and architectural modernity of the 1950s and 1960s in the heart of Brussels. At least, we will thus preserve the trace of its disappearance, trace of which the final form, at the end of the 10 months of the destruction process, is a time-lapse video showing in 5 minutes the destruction of the tower: Martini Ground Zero. |
 The destruction process ended on May 23, 2002 and the camera is unplugged. |
For a long time, the Martini Tower seemed to be built on the rocks. But at a time when the ice floes are melting, the ice cubes have the flu and Martini has become the martyr tower of the urban policy of François Xavier De Donnéa, ex-mayor (burgmaster) of Brussels, who, long before Bin Laden, dreamed to cut the towers of Brussels. The Martini Tower is a perfect example of abruxellation: by dint of being there, its ugliness (*) ended up pleasing, and hatred turned into love-mourning."
(Yves Bernard and Alain GeronneZ, Nov.2001) (*A.GeronneZ's opinion) |
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| >>> news & documents >>> | >>>>>> | ||||
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| NEW 09/21 the video Martini Ground Zero, how we destroy towers in Bruxel is online | >>>>>> | ||||
| NEW 09/21 About this update 20 years after 09/2001 | >>>>>> | ||||
| Martini Ground Zero at Netwerk Centrum d'Alost (10/11 au 15/12/2007) | >>>>>> | ||||
| Martini Ground Zero at PleinOpenAir, Cité Administrative, Bruxelles (Aôut 2004) | >>>>>> | ||||
| DVD video Martini Ground Zero at San Francisco (Juin 2003) | >>>>>> | ||||
| Archive film, excerpts of "Rendez-vous met de wereld" © VRT 1997 | >>>>>> | ||||
| Excerpts of the demolition - THE DAY OF "MARTINI GROUND ZERO" (23.5.2002) | >>>>>> | ||||
| Pictures of the final collapse by Stefan Tavernier | >>>>>> | ||||
| Other pictures by Stefan Tavernier | >>>>>> | ||||
| The pictures of Marie-Françoise Plissart (1996) | >>>>>> | ||||
| The photo of Benoît Plateus (08/2001) | >>>>>> | ||||
| L'article de Cyrus Pâques (Imagine Magazine, Octobre 2001) | >>>>>> | ||||
| Quelques articles de 2001 réunis par Iwan Strauwen | >>>>>> | ||||
| Extrait du livre "Hommage International Rogier Centrum", AA50, 1996 | >>>>>> | ||||
| Essai de Bruno de Meulder, 1996 | >>>>>> | ||||
| Fries at Martini terrace Martini of Stef, photos Y.Bernard | >>>>>> | ||||
| 7 avril 2002: Ruins here and there, a series of photos by Y.Bernard | >>>>>> | ||||
| Club Martini: the video document of E.Vercouter (1989) | >>>>>> | ||||
| >>> links >>> | >>>>>> | ||||
| NEW 09/21 Un scandale: il y a 20 ans était signé l'arrêt de mort de la Tour (2021) | www.rtbf.be... | ||||
| NEW 09/21 L’inoubliable Terrasse Martini et ses nombreuses légendes (2018) | www.lalibre.be... | ||||
| NEW 09/21 Postcards of the tower (social architecture in Belgium) by E.Vercouter | www.backintime.be... | ||||
| Mort d'une Tour de Françoise Chatelain | users.skynet... | ||||
| Le projet "abruxellation" de Juan d'Oultremont | www.abruxellation.org | ||||
| The installation "Tour Martini" by Michel Lorand | www.michellorand.net | ||||
| Architecture et urbanisme à Bruxelles | www.eurobru.com | ||||
| Bruxelles en Mouvements - tours et logement - La Guerre des Tours | www.ieb.be | ||||
| Le formulaire de sauvegarde de Sint-Lukasarchief | arch.rug.ac.be/... | ||||
| Department of Architecture & Urban Planning (University of Gent) | arch.rug.ac.be | ||||
| Diploma Thesis: Tour Martini , Author(s): Monauni, Alexia | www.tugraz.at | ||||
| Le site de Pierre Bernard (qui n'est pas le frère d'Yves) | membres.lycos.fr/... | ||||
| The website of di-Sturb group | disturb.be | ||||
| La Nouvelle Tour dessinée par Samyn et Jaspers, monofonctionnelle et conforme ? | www.samynandpartners.be | ||||
| avec l'ingéniérie de Tractebel... | www.tractebel.com | ||||
| Les tentatives de rénovation, études énergétiques et scientifiques: | |||||
| Investigations for improving the daylighting potential... | www.unl.ac.uk/... | ||||
| Martini Tower Winter Operation by Kohn Pederson Fox (1999) | www.battlemccarthy....uk/... | ||||
| Skyscraping Wind Generator (1995) | GreenClips.28 08.02.95 | ||||
| >>> biblio >>> | >>>>>> | ||||
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B. De Meulder, M.-F. Plissart, E. De Kuyper, Martini/Martini! tweetalige catalogus (ndl/fr.), Brussel, Yang, Kritak, SUN, kunstenFESTIVALdesarts,1996. |
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| >>> the media are talking about it >>> |
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| Hep Taxi! (La Deux), émission du 25/04/2003 (les Tours à Bruxelles) | |||||
| Cybercafe 21 (Radio21), émission du 16/11/2001 (Internet et contre-pouvoir) | www.cybercafe21.net | ||||
| Site du jour sur Archicool le 19/11/2001 | www.archicool.com | ||||
| Article sur le site De Architect (NL) | www.dearchitect.nl | ||||
| >>> contact >>> | >>>>>> | ||||
| Comments, contributions, documents and archives are welcome... e-mail : yb@magic.be | |||||
| >>> credits >>> | >>>>>> | ||||
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Tour Martini is a project of Yves Bernard (yb@imal.org) coproduced in 2001-2002 by iMAL and Magic Media with the sponsoring of De Meuter sa/nv. Thanks to Stefan, Dogmar, Alexandra, Alain, Regis, Antje, Iwan, Joke, Lisa (English version in 2021),... |
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