There was the Earthquake in Virginia, Anybody hear about the Brussels one today

[DTCwordfan]

http://www.ilotsacre.be/images/Grand_Place.JPG

I am amazed at the angle of the "Hotel de Ville."

I knew that the building should not be standing because of a major engineering gaffe, but this!!!!

Anybody know what the construction stuff-up was?

The architect, when he saw it, went to the top of the tower and threw himself off onto the Grand Place below. It's how Olympic Diving was invented - or so we joked....

[jackthehat]

Why do you believe that there is anything wrong in the construction of the Hotel de Ville?
it is not immediately apparent from the photograph you have provided...

[ABerrant]

'The tower, its front archway and the main building facade are conspicuously off-centre relative to one another. According to legend, the architect upon discovering this "error" leapt to his death from the tower.'

http://en.wikipedia.o...ki/Brussels_Town_Hall

[DTCwordfan]

aah, you are lurking once again ABE, and correct you are - sometimes I think MI5 employ you.....

[emmie]

I can't see anything out of the ordinary, perhaps its these glasses.

[jackthehat]

An asymmetrical design does not necessarily equate with a constructional stuff-up.......they should just have planted ivy; no-one would be any the wiser by now. :o)

[Prudie]

I'm lost too, just looks a distortion cause by a wide-angle lens?

[jackthehat]

http://en.wikipedia.o...lgium_Brussels_03.JPG

This image shows that the facade is assymetrical with more colonnades to the left (as you look) of the tower, than there are to the right.

[DTCwordfan]

Its just the severity of the angle and, yes, it's a wide angle - it adds to the fictional histroy of the building though.

I lived there for several years and it's a marvellous square to sit there and enjoy the people watching with a "Jup" in hand or, preferably, "un Orval"

[jno]

as Prudie says - converging verticals - it happens when you tilt your camera back to take in a high building. You'll notice the buildings on the right also appear to be leaning inwards. In real life they ain't.

[Gromit]

It is unlikely to be an error. The asyemetry must have been on purpose, through it does look a bit odd.

http://www.google.co....u_MYzzsgbt7bkB&zoom=1

[jno]

that's nothing - you should have seen it when I photographed it a few years back

http://imageshack.us/...sgrandplacetownh.jpg/

I've got a better camera now