posts tagged ‘antwerp’
Belgium | trainstations & landscapes
March 15th, 2010 • cities, movingmemos, travel
Tags: antwerp, brussels, ghent, infrastructure, on-the-move
Ghent | February 23, 2010
An extended series of images capturing one week of moving around in the northern part of Belgium, Flanders, by train. The home of continental Europe’s first railway, built in 1835, Belgium has one of Europe’s most extensive rail networks. Snapshots from Ghent, Antwerp, Bruges and Brussels. And the 99% urbanized area in between these cities.
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Driving through Belgium | part I
May 8th, 2009 • architectures, cities, movingmemos, travel
Tags: antwerp, brussels, ghent, on-the-move, urbanism
Belgium | April 2009
In 1968 the Belgian architect Renaat Braem published a manifesto on his native country called “The Ugliest Country in the World”. In 1979, on the eve of the 150th anniversary of Belgian independence, architect and artist Luc Deleu (T.O.P. Office) laid ‘the last stone of Belgium’ in his small front garden in Antwerp. Today, rather surprisingly, Belgium still exists. Some snapshots and background to a 99% urbanized territory.
MAS | under construction snapshots
August 26th, 2008 • architectures, movingmemos
Tags: antwerp, architecture, construction
The MAS (tagline a new museum in Antwerp about the river, the city, the port and the world) is a design by Neutelings-Riedijk Architects and currently under construction. Surprisingly under construction one could say, as the design was already on the table in 1999 when Neutelings-Riedijk won the international architectural competition. It took 7 years to lay the first stone, in September 2006, and the museum is supposed to be operational in 2010. read more »
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