According to the Bozar website, Horta himself imagined this building as being “immense and yet almost invisible, overlooking the city and yet buried underground, multiple and yet unified, prestigious and yet open to all".
While Horta was referring to the “Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles", the words could equally serve to describe expectations with regard to the European Union: "Immense and yet almost invisible, multiple and yet unified, prestigious and yet open to all".