Events/ 15/16 May 2025

Antwerp Group Study Tour
The tour fee is £200 each and includes entry to, and guided tour of, the Havenhuis and the group dinner on the Tuesday evening. It excludes all travel, accommodation and other subsistence.
Eurostar from St Pancras to Brussels with a connecting train to Antwerp would be an approx. three hours travel time. Travel around Antwerp to the various tour points is recommended by tram, bus, bike or scooter.
Draft Itinerary
Building M University of Antwerp Wilrijk
In order to centralise all of the classes offered by the faculties of Medicine and Health Sciences and Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences on one campus, that of the Drie Eiken, the University of Antwerp commissioned new teaching facilities and a research building. In addition to clinical spaces and computer rooms, this also houses areas for private study. Building M occupies a central location on the campus, and lies to the south of Building O (also by META). Together with the central square, the two buildings form the nucleus of the campus, on the connection point between the ‘forest’, characterised by detached buildings, and the ‘urban grid’, which is denser and more compact.
Building O University of Antwerp Wilrijk
META architecturrbureau, storimans wijffels architecten, and technum in collaboration with west 8, won the competition for the ‘auditory and laboratory Building O’ at the University of Antwerp. the new structure will become the central gateway, the heart of the campus between the entrances and traffic flows. located in the centre it will reconnect the northern and primary grounds with the natural landscape.
Sint-Lucas Antwerpen
The project consists of a general master plan for the campus of the school, which results in the design of different exterior spaces, the transformation of several buildings and two new buildings: one workshop building and a small library. The aim of the master plan is to transform a hermetic monastery, which consists of two conglomerate city blocks, into an open art school. Therefore an enclosed garden is converted into a new public square in between the two blocks. It gives the school the possibility to mark its presence in the city; on the other hand it offers a new public space to the dense neighbourhood.
Havenhuis
NB. During the tour, a great many staircases will be used.
Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, The Port House beautifully portrays city’s diamond image. The design was a winning entry to an open competition which had the main criteria of preserving the existing structure. It consists of areas such as meeting rooms, auditorium and restaurant at the bottom floors which adjoins the functions of the upper floors of the existing structure. The structure is a good example of sustainability and has received good ratings ‘BREEAM’ environmental rating. The automation in facades and other services has led to achieve the standards of sustainability.
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Resources
A formal invitation will go out to members in late January to express their interest.