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Architects: XDGA
- Area: 33000 m²
- Year: 2019
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Photographs:XDGA - Matthias Van Rossen
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Manufacturers: AutoDesk, Allard & Fils, Alphenberg Leather, Axioma Lighting, Blitta Gevelsystemen, Ceramica Vogue, Clestra Hauserman, IMW, Lindner, Metalprojects, Modulyss, Mullerafbouwgroep, Schüco, Sikafloor, Transportbeton
Text description provided by the architects. The new building replaces a complex of modernist building volumes that used to occupy the entire site and could not be adapted to today's sustainability standards. As the Antwerp city centre has few public green surfaces, the transformation of the site from a merely private, mineral, and infrastructural area into a public garden is a crucial requirement of the competition brief. Surrounded by fragments of public green, the parcel is key to the formation of a larger, coherent park. Another – contradictory - demand was to maintain a more recent representational pavilion, which was positioned as an obstacle in between the fragments.
