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Architects: Marie-José Van Hee, Robbrecht & Daem
- Year: 2012
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Photographs:Tim Van de Velde
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Structural Engineering: BAS, Dirk Jaspaert

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.































