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P2716 Civil engineering structures and the 80 M cantilevered arrow Another construction was the Arrow of Civil Engineering, an enormous concrete protrusion designed by architect Jean Van Doosselaere and Prof. André Paduart. The artist Jacques Moeschal was called upon to refine the design. The arrow was dynamited in 1970 to make way for the Trade Market. Geert Bekaert wrote the following about the imminent destruction in November 1969: It is not necessary to consider this monument a masterpiece to denounce the manner of doing things. Here is the same carelessness that lets our entire environment, with all that it has in value, perish because of urgent particular interests. Money is spent to decorate the bridges of the motorways with statuettes of nobody. And if you have one big picture, you spend money to have it broken down.
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