Charlemagne building

The Charlemagne building is a skyscraper in the European Quarter in Brussels. It is the seat of the European Commission of Commerce and the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enlargement Directorate-General.

The building has three wings and 15 floors, in three conference rooms. It is located in the Rue de la Loi / Rue de la Loi in Brussels, one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels- Capital Region. While the postcode of the town is 1000, the European Commission has the postal code 1049 a reserved for them specifically.

History

The building was designed by Jacques Cuisinier and built in 1967 at the same time as the Berlaymont building to bring together the Commission's somewhat scattered departments. In 1971, the Charlemagne - after they refused to share the Berlaymont with the Council of the European Union - handed over to the Secretariat of the Council. This was previously located in the center of the city.

The Council of the European Union withdrew in 1995 in the Justus Lipsius building around. This enabled the renovation of Charlemagne, which could then be completed in 1998. Helmut Jahn replaced while the outer concrete façade elements with modern glass surfaces. After the Restoration, the Commission again referred the building. Other offices of the European Union were grouped around the Schumann roundabout.

For some time there has also been implicated as a future headquarters for the European External Action Service this week, which was founded in 2010. The idea was left but for image reasons fall again. They wanted to know exercised the new European External Action Service as an independent body outside the Commission and not as an appendage to the company Lex 2000, which established the opposite, now architecturally similar Lex building and has.

Seen Renovated Charlemagne of the Rue de la Loi from

Other buildings in the European Quarter

  • Commission
  • Parliament
  • Advice
  • Other
  • Green spaces
  • Pedestrian zone
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