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Last modified: 2005-02-26 by ivan sache
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[Flag of Brussels]by Santiago Dotor, logotype from the municipal website

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Flag of Brussels

The municipal flag of Brussels, as flown from the city hall (a recently-restored, beautiful medieval building in the Grand Place) and other buildings is a square, horizontally divided green over red flag, with on its centre a very large version of the municipal logotype, a stylized, disc-shaped silhouette of St. Michael trampling the devil, in dark yellow.

Santiago Dotor, 10 March 2003

Coat of arms of Brussels

In Louda's European Civic Arms [lou66], the arms of the city of Brussels are:

Gules Saint Michael or trampling the devil

Filip Van Laenen, 7 September 1995

Former flag of Brussels

[Former flag of Brussels]by Ivan Sache

The cover of Vexillacta [vxl] #12 (June 2001) shows a painting by Pierre Thévenet (1870-1937), entitled Bruxelles - Porte de Namur - 21 juillet 1932. The 21st of July is the National Day in Belgium. On the main building represented on the painting are hoisted:

  • the flag of Belgian Congo
  • the national flag of Belgium ('Belgian square', with proportion 13:15)
  • the flag of the municipality of Brussels (red with a green border)
  • the flag of the municipality of Ixelles (horizontally divided green-white).

Ivan Sache, 3 July 2001

Flag artwork in Brussels, by Daniel Buren

The French artist Daniel Buren set up in Paris in summer 2002 an artwork called Les couleurs : sculpture made of vertically coloured stripe flags hoisted over 15 big buildings.

According to Le Soir (26 March 2004), the Collège (Municipal Council) of Brussels has asked Buren to contribute to the revamping of the place de la Justice. Buren's artwork shall be incorporated into a larger revamping called Chemins de la Ville, drafted by the architects of the Capart bureau.

The first draft of the artwork includes 133 masts to be displayed on the whole square except the car ways (sic). Since the square is not flat, all masts won't be equally high but their elevation will be the same. The aim of the set up is to build a forest in which cars and pedestrians will have to find their way.
The masts will have flags, and a special device will prevent the flags to wrap around the masts in case of wind. There will be a light on the top of each mast.

The authorization of setting up the Chemins de la Ville artwork shall be issued by the Region Brussels-Capital upon request of the municipality of Brussels. The article in Le Soir is illustrated by a sketch of the artwork by Buren. The flags are shown as roughly 3:1 in proportion, with 9 black vertical stripes alternating with 8 white vertical stripes.

Ivan Sache, 20 July 2004