The now controversial Leopold II personally backed an ambitious urbanistic program to improve the quality of life in Belgian cities and promote a cultural awakening, and a fruit of the efforts of the Roi bâtisseur is the monumental building that went
The new Tim Van Laere Gallery of contemporary art in Antwerp goes up in a central location within the New South district (Nieuw Zuid), an ambitious urban redevelopment plan launched by the city council in collaboration with the private developer Trip
This residential building of 80 apartments is part of a coherent but varied city block of around 25,000 m² in the former dockland district of Antwerp. It shares a central private garden with five buildings, visually linked to the streets by arcades a
Located at the heart of a new Maritime Park in the north of Antwerp, the museum repurposes existing buildings along the quays of the historic port of the city: dry docks, a listed 19th-century pump-house, and several shipbuilding structures... [+]
Antwerp has been one of the most important trading ports of Europe since the Middle Ages, when it began to develop its economy at a fast pace, capitalizing on its strategic location in the north of the continent. The construction of Kattendijkdok in
A la manera de los bulevares parisinos, la Nationalestraat de Amberes conecta desde finales del siglo XIX el centro de la ciudad con su ensanche sur. En el cruce de esta calle con la Drukkerijstraat se alza la monumental esquina de un edificio constr
Este depósito de agua, que fue una de las primeras realizaciones en hormigón armado, se construyó para proporcionar agua corriente a Brasschaat. En 1937 se puso en funcionamiento una nueva infraestructura de suministro de agua, con cuatro torres más,
Established in the year 1843, Antwerp Zoo is Belgium’s oldest animal park and one of the world’s oldest, and in 1983 it was classified as a monument. The new aviary respects the character, consolidated over time, of the zoo’s historical buildings, bu
Architecture parlante was an invention of French architects of the Enlightenment by which buildings explained their functions through their forms, tying up the rational with the expressive. From this arose projects of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude
Situado en los antiguos muelles de Amberes, el nuevo museo de la historia de la ciudad, llamado Museum Aan de Stroom (MAS) —por encontrarse a orillas del Escalda—, forma parte de un gran proyecto de revitalización de esta degradada zona portuaria. La
Después de Rotterdam, Amberes es el segundo puerto de Europa, con más de 50 kilómetros de muelles a orillas del Escalda. Con el fin de centralizar servicios administrativos dispersos, la Autoridad Portuaria belga convocó un concurso abierto al que se
