The Hansahuis, built in 1568, was the economic heart of the Hansa towns in Antwerp until it burned down in 1893. Today, on the same site a new building has risen up – the MAS (Museum aan de Stroom // Museum on the River) which brings together the collections from the former Ethnographic Museum and […]
Between 1873 and 1935 the Red Star Line operated transatlantic liners which transported between two and three million people from Antwerp to America and Canada, with connections to Cuba and Mexico. Many of these emigrants would have arrived in Antwerp by train at the magnificent Central Station and must have been astonished at the architecture, […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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