The ( French) or (

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

) is a former

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located in central

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

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. The district was centred around Saint Mary Magdalene's Church between the /, the / and the current /. It was largely destroyed starting in the 1920s with the works of the

North–South connection The North–South connection (french: Jonction Nord-Midi, nl, Noord-Zuidverbinding) is a railway link of national and international importance through central Brussels, Belgium, that connects the major railway stations in the city. It is line ...

, to develop the area for Brussels Central Station and other modern office buildings. Many historic structures were lost in the demolition process.Aubry, Françoise; Vandenbreeden, Jos (1996). Horta — Art Nouveau to Modernism. Ghent: Ludion Press. Some of the area was redeveloped in the 1980s and 1990s with varying degrees of success, with buildings in the

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and the New

Brick Renaissance Brick Renaissance is the Northern European continuation of brick architecture after Brick Romanesque and Brick Gothic. Although the term Brick Gothic is often used generally for all of this architecture, especially in regard to the Hanseatic citi ...

style, following the principles of

New Urbanism New Urbanism is an urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s, and has gradually inf ...

and the

European Urban Renaissance The European Urban Renaissance is an architectural movement aiming at developing European cities according to traditional urban design principles and architectural styles. The movement is contemporaneous with the American New Urbanism movement. Ty ...

. The name of the street has survived to this day. File:Victor Hennebert (1877-1947), View of the Putterie quarter in Brussels, from the townhall tower, in 1912.jpg, View of the / quarter from the tower of Brussels' Town Hall, File:Brussels - Hotel Meridien - panoramio.jpg, and hotel, constructed in the 1980s in the

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style to give back a more historic urban appearance to the area

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