Did Capability Brown design the racetrack at Spa-Francorchamps?
Capability Brown’s work can be seen all over the grand estates of England and his influence as a garden designer has never been in doubt. Less well-acknowledged is his influence on race-track design. One would have thought that few were the patrons asking the 18th Century master gardener to squeeze a racetrack between the ornamental lake...
Welcome to Belgium, waffles, beer and the search for the elusive moules-frites
Anyone who knows anything about the Belgians knows that they live on moules-frites, waffles and beer. All washed down with lashings of chocolate. These culinary delights were my targets on a recent all-too-brief Spa-Francorchamps road trip. The more moules, the more frites, the more waffles and the more beer I could get my hands on,...
#F1 hits Belgium’s historic Spa circuit
At last the summer break is over and Formula One returns to action. And what a place to begin the second half of the season. The circuit of Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in eastern Belgium is a cracker and the favourite of many F1 followers and drivers. One of the oldest tracks in current F1, it was...
Daniel Buren’s ‘Le décor et son double’: the ambiguity of the public space
From the 21st of September 2011 until the 4th of November 2012 Daniel Buren’s exhibition Le Décor et son Double will be on view at S.M.A.K. – the municipal museum for contemporary art in Ghent, Belgium. The show focuses on one single work, a unique artwork which, at the same time, is part of a...
