The Tower A Concrete Utopia

One of the early landmarks of Belgian colonial urban architecture was the Forescom tower Built in 1946 it was Leopoldvilles first skyscraper and one of the first high rise buildings of Central Africa Pointing towards the sky it also pointed to the future It embodied and made tangible new ideas of possible futures and as such the tower materially translated and emblematically visualised colonialist ideologies of progress and modernity The video The Tower A Concrete Utopia offers a guided tour by Docteur the owner of this remarkable tower situated in the municipality of Limete Conceived and realized by Docteur without the help of professional architects the construction of this asyet unfinished tower was started in 2003