Finance Tower

Geschiedenis

The Finance Tower is a skyscraper in the Northern Quarter central business district of Brussels, Belgium, designed by the architects Hugo Van Kuyck, Marcel Lambrichs and Léon Stynen. It is the second tallest building in Belgium, and has the most office space of any building in Belgium.Height classificationAt the time of its construction, this skyscraper was the second tallest building in Belgium after the South Tower. The height of the building is 145 meters, and it has 36 floors.LocationThe Finance Tower is situated to the crossroads of the boulevard of the botanical Garden and the Royal Street . It is served by many public transit systems, including the Botanique/Kruidtuin metro station and Brussels-Central and Brussels-North railway stations.ArtRight in front of the Finance Tower one finds this sculpture of two females embracing. In individualistic Belgian fashion, this is rather an evocative and erotically-themed sculpture. One of the two women is more classically feminine in appearance, the other looks more like a man, though one quickly sees she also female. The pose is enigmatic, with the shorter-haired woman firmly grasping the wrist of the longer-haired woman behind her back, almost wrestling her into submission, while both look away from each other despite being nude and intimate.