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post updated 15 August 2025

23 July 2025
Antwerp Central Station Building News

Creating a new identity for the ‘railway cathedral’ by combining an embellishing and enhancing lighting treatment with a contemporary and future-oriented experience of the environment and the building.

The architectural design expresses the constant movement and vibrancy of the station area by building a new perception and restoring the hierarchy of the space. Movement is the essence of an active, dynamic contemporary city.

In stations, people and goods flow across the country and different countries in a continuous flow. The new lighting project creates visual interest, provides perception of the rich architectural details and creates a comfortable ambience where people not only run through and find their way easily, but also enjoy a moment of relaxation.

Year: 2021-2023
Client: City of Antwerp (BE)
Contact person: Johan Kinoo
Contractor: Maes IV
Project management: Fluvius
Lighting Design: Susanna Antico Lighting Design Studio
Workgroup: Susanna Antico, Samuel Vespo, Daniela Lupacchini, Gad Giladi

7 May 2025
DUMO Office and Library Building Antwerp
Design: ZOOM architecten

photograph © Dieter Van Caneghem

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10 May 2023
Sports Centre Sportoase Groot Schijn, Antwerp, Deurne
Architects: ZJA in collaboration with OM/AR

photo : Kattoo Hillewaere

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Antwerp Buildings Designs

Antwerp Architecture News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

25 Nov 2022
Boerentoren Tower, Antwerp
Architects: Architect Daniel Libeskind

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Architect Daniel Libeskind will transform the iconic Boerentoren Tower, located in the centre of Antwerp, Belgium, into a major new public cultural centre. The building will feature exhibition spaces, a panoramic viewing platform, a rooftop sculpture garden and new restaurants and bars.

18 Oct 2022
Theunis Bridge in Antwerp Merksem – 2022 Architecture Masterprize Winner
Architects: architecture studio ZJA with Arcadis, Sweco and OKRA Landscape Architects

photograph © ZJA
The Theunis Bridge that links Merksem with Deurne has been awarded the prestigious Architecture MasterPrize for 2022. Commissioned by De Vlaamse Waterweg, architectural studio ZJA designed the new Theunis Bridge over the Albert Canal in collaboration with Arcadis, Sweco and OKRA Landscape Architects.

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30 Nov 2021
Zuiderzicht Mixed-Use Development, Antwerp Nieuw Zuid
Design: KCAP with evr-architectenn

photo © Stijn Bollaert
KCAP in cooperation with evr-architecten have completed the residential tower Zuiderzicht. It is one of the new buildings of the Antwerp Nieuw Zuid development, a new residential area along the River Scheldt in the South of Antwerp.

27 October 2021
Community Center Edegem Building, province of Antwerp
Architects: MKA Marc Koehler Architects

photo : Maikel Samuels
Bourgeois 19th century house, a rectory and an environment of historic garden walls with enclosed gardens – providing a certain tranquility despite being right in the historic centre. The open, transparent architecture and the positioning of the building provide new vibrancy to the streetscape and create a unity with Huis Hellemans, the garden and the presbytery with historic garden walls.

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7 July 2020
3D-printed model home, Kamp C Westerlo

image © Kamp C
Kamp C, the Westerlo-based provincial Centre for Sustainability and Innovation in construction, printed a house using the largest 3D concrete printer in Europe. The 90-square metre dwelling was printed in one piece with a fixed printer. This is a world first.

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18 Mar 2018
Port House Antwerp Building
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects

photo © Helene Binet
Following its commendation by the Architectural Review’s ‘New into Old’ awards in December 2017, Port House in Antwerp has been named ‘Best Refurbished Building’ at the MIPIM Awards 2018.

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14 Sep 2017
Antwerp Tower in Belgium
Design: WAA

image Courtesy architecture office
Situated on a corner site, adjacent to the Flemish Opera, the Antwerp Tower is an existing building that will be repurposed to hybrid-programmed residential tower, reusing the existing building’s structure, and shape. It is the third tallest building in Antwerp at 87m high, but due to be 100m on completion.

5 Apr 2017
Shopping Towns Europe, deSingel International Arts Campus, Antwerp
Flanders Architecture Institute Exhibition
Shopping Towns Europe is the second edition of the Architecture Cabinet, a fast switching exhibition format that allows the Flanders Architecture Institute to address topical research and design. The exhibition Shopping Towns Europe explores the introduction and dissemination of the regional shopping centre in Europe between 1945 and 1975.

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Building Developments in Antwerp

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Antwerp Buildings, Belgium. We aim to include projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.

We cover completed Antwerp buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across the city. The focus is on contemporary buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.

We have 1 page of Antwerp Architecture selections with links to many individual project pages.

13 + 12 Dec 2016
Call for Design Teams for Antwerp Ring Cover Design
In early 2016, the Flemish government appointed intendant Alexander D’Hooghe, with the assignment to prepare a road cover and liveability project by the beginning of 2018 for the R1 (the Ring through Antwerp).

image courtesy of architects

25 + 16 Nov 2016
Antwerp Vertical Social Community
Design: C.F. Møller Architects + Brut Architecture and Urban Design

image courtesy of architects
C.F. Møller has designed a 24-storey residential tower block in Antwerp’s Nieuw Zuid area on the river Schelde, with the aim of redefining the multi-storey block as a social, vertical community.

6 Nov 2016
Tower Striga 1 in Antwerp
Design: KCAP Architects&Planners with evr-Architecten

image courtesy of architects
Team selected for the design of one of three residential towers for the project Antwerp Nieuw Zuid. This new residential area will develop along the Schelde in the south of the city, based on a masterplan by Studio Associates Secchi-Viganò.

22 Sep 2016
Port House, Antwerp
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects

photo © Helene Binet
This new building repurposes, renovates and extends a derelict fire station into a new hq for the port. Following the construction of a new fire station with facilities needed to service the expanding port, the old fire station on the Mexico Island site became redundant and relied on a change of use to ensure its preservation.

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17 Nov 2010
De Harmonie Antwerp
Design: Atelier Kempe Thill

image from architects
Winning design of an invited international architecture competition for the transformation of Antwerp’s former 19th century concert hall “De Harmonie” into a “space of silence”. The building will be used as a non-religious contemplative centre for celebrations of important moments in life and individual reflection.

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Antwerp Buildings 2006 to 2009

Major Antwerp Architecture Projects, alphabetical:

Antwerp Port House Building
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects

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The future headquarters of Antwerp Port Authority will be designed by the London firm of Zaha Hadid Architects. The new Port House will occupy the site of the technical services building on quay 63.

Base Flagship Store Antwerp
Design: Creneau International

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Antwerp Law Courts – European Law Courts Buildings
Design: Richard Rogers Partnership with VK Studio, Architects

image from ArcelorMittal

Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten – KMSKA Antwerp
Design: Claus en Kaan Architecten

image from architect
The assignment for Antwerp’s Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (KMSKA) consists of the drawing up of a Master Plan for the extension and restoration of the museum; and this encompasses more than purely physical changes to the building. It is an extremely long-term project with a limited budget.

MAS I Museum aan de Stroom
Design: Neutelings Riedijk Architects

photo : Sarah Blee © Neutelings Riedijk Architects
The MAS was designed as a sixty-meter high tower. Ten gigantic natural stone trunks are piled up as a physical demonstration of the heaviness of history, full of historical objects that are the legacy of our ancestors.