One of the first completed projects from Zaha Hadid’s office since her untimely death, at 65 in March this year, the new Port House on the sprawling docks of Antwerp, Belgium, is a bravura, if distinctly eccentric work.
New Spin for an Old Town: A city in Belgium aspires to make it onto Europe's cultural map with an energetic building that ramps up the architectural volume.
A city in Belgium aspires to make it onto Europe's cultural map with an energetic building that ramps up the architectural volume. Once a medieval city on a hill in the French-speaking part of Belgium, Mons later became a center of heavy industry.
Beyond Boundaries: The Belgian firm C.T. Architects' solution for a client who uses a wheelchair shows a keen sense of spatial relationships and materials with universal appeal.
Bruges may be best known for its centuries-old stepped-gable structures edging cobblestoned streets and narrow canals, and for its urban squares enclosed by idiosyncratic Gothic and Flemish Renaissance buildings.
A ten-story, 210,510-square-foot museum of the city of Antwerp, with exhibition galleries, a restaurant, an event space, and a panoramic terrace, as well as a plaza that includes a museum shop and a mosaic by Luc Tuymans.