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Brussels Region and Sibelga sign agreement to beautifully light up Brussels

  • Editorial Team
  • May 28, 2021
  • 2 minute read

Following a Framework Agreement between the Brussel Capital Region and system operator Sibelga, several Brussels buildings will be structurally highlighted with scenographic lighting. This agreement has been signed by Brussels State Secretary for Urbanism and Heritage Pascal Smet and Raphaël Lefere, CEO of Sibelga.

Several buildings and squares, such as the Grand Place, Mont des Arts and the VRT transmission tower, are already illuminated in the evening.  The aim of this agreement is to efficiently and beautifully light up many more buildings and squares in the short term, with special attention to their heritage value.

“Many people carefully light up their living room with various light sources to achieve a cosy feeling. We should create this same feeling in the city, both day and night, because the city is the everyone’s living room. Brussels has plenty of beautiful buildings and squares and we are now literally going to illuminate them. Not only to show their beauty, but also to give people the same safe and cosy feeling of being at home. Together with Sibelga we keep working on a pleasant city for all Brusselers,” says Pascal Smet, State Secretary for Urbanism and Heritage.

“The city is everyone’s living room”

Pascal smet, Brussels State Secretary for Urbanism and Heritage Pascal

Rudi Vervoort, Brussels region Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction with the cooperation agreement between the Region and Sibelga – “As a result of this agreement, some of our heritage buildings will be highlighted again thanks to a brand new lighting scenario.”

“The Sibelga teams are proud to highlight the Brussels heritage, both at night and during the day. They do so in close collaboration with urban.brussels. To achieve this, they have to adapt to the specific characteristics of each building and support its structure. We have built up this expertise over many years of lighting projects for municipal buildings. In the end, we want to offer all citizens the possibility to rediscover the gems of the Brussels-Capital Region by putting them in a “new light” as soon as night falls,” says CEO of Sibelga Raphaël Lefere.

Together with Sibelga and the Office of State Secretary Pascal Smet, urban.brussels, the Brussels public service for urbanism and heritage, will soon decide which Brussels buildings will be atmospherically illuminated during this first stage. Afterwards, the research office and the contractor, already appointed by Sibelga, will concretely prepare and carry out the interventions.
The Brussels-Capital Region is making 1.5 million euros available for the implementation of the programme, which will run for three years.

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