The Belgian Buildings Agency and the Department of Justice recently announced the winners of their Brussels Courthouse: Imagine the Future International Ideas Competition. To make the issues of architecture and urban design more widely known, BOZAR Architecture has backed this initiative by hosting the awards ceremony and staging an exhibition of the entries at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels until May 15th. More images and description of winning entries after the break.
The Brussels Courthouse, a major architectural symbol in Brussels built between 1866 and 1883 by architect Joseph Poelaert, is hard to secure and complex to modernize. A particularly strong view is necessary to handle its modernization as well as the preservation of its listed features at one time. This is the framework in which the Belgian Federal Government decided, during Belgium’s Presidency of the European Union, to launch an international ideas contest designed to examine possible future uses of the Brussels Courthouse and the surroundings of Place Poelaert.
