Market Hall in Ghent / Marie-José Van Hee + Robbrecht & Daem

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  • Collaborators: Jan Baes, Tom Broes, Bert Callens, Katrien Cammers, Axel Clissen, Mattias Deboutte, Petra Decouttere, Arne Deruyter, Linde Everaerd, Trice Hofkens, Gert Jansseune, Daniël Libens, Wim Menten, Carmen Osten, Filip Reumers, Sofie Reynaert, Miriam Rohde, Johannes Robbrecht, Marilù Sicoli, Gert Swolfs, Pieter Vanderhoydonck, Kathy Vermeeren, Caroline Voet, Wim Walschap
  • Client: VVM De Lijn & TMVW
  • Special Techniques Engineering: Studiebureau Boydens
  • Infrastructural Engineering: Technum
  • City: Ghent
  • Country: Belgium
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Following two demolition campaigns for a world exhibition in 1913 and an administrative centre never built in the 60s, Ghent’s historic heart degenerated for decades into a desolate parking lot in between a suite of three adjoining Gothic towers. In two consecutive competitions between 1996 and 2005, Robbrecht en Daem architecten and MJosé Van Hee architects proposed their own programme, countering the initial competition requirement.

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Cite: "Market Hall in Ghent / Marie-José Van Hee + Robbrecht & Daem" 29 Apr 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/365260/market-hall-in-ghent-marie-jose-van-hee-robbrecht-and-daem> ISSN 0719-8884

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