Apr 29, 2013 · The building positions itself between Poeljemarkt, Goudenleeuwplein, and a new lower ‘green’ connecting to the ‘brasserie’, bicycle park and public toilets below the hall.

Market Hall and Central Squares, Ghent, Belgium Following two demolition campaigns for a world exhibition in 1913 and an administrative centre never built in the 60s, Ghent’s historic heart degenerated for decades into a desolate parking lot in between a …

Apr 19, 2013 · Light filters through hundreds of rectangular slits into this towering market hall in Ghent, Belgium, which is is one of the five finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2013 (photos by...

Jan 31, 2013 · The market hall is simultaneously contemporary in terms of its materiality and form, and yet grounded in its place. It draws obliquely on Ghent typologies: the great roof of the 15th-century Groot Vleeshuis (butchers’ hall), for example, or the …

May 8, 2013 · The Marie-José Van Hee + Robbrecht & Daem designed Market Hall in Ghent reinstates the presence of old urban areas that had become unrecognizable. As an urban interior, the inside embraces...

Oct 5, 2014 · Following two demolition campaigns for a world exhibition in 1913 and an administrative centre never built in the 60s, Ghent’s historic heart degenerated for decades into a desolate parking lot in between a suite of three adjoining Gothic towers.

Mercado en Gante (Bélgica) Market Hall in the Historic City Center of Ghent (Belgium). Robbrecht en Daem architecten & Marie-José Van Hee architecten. A new market covered by a huge roof of origamic pitches, clad with wood and glass, has served to organize one of the...

Apr 30, 2015 · Following two demolition campaigns for a world exhibition in 1913 and an administrative centre never built in the 60s, Ghent’s historic heart degenerated for decades into a desolate parking lot in between a suite of three adjoining Gothic towers.

Apr 12, 2013 · a new flexible market hall in the historic city center reactivates the surrounding vernacular architecture and reinstates the area as an active social hub.

City Market Hall (Stadshal) located in the old town near Belfry (Belfort) Tower. In Saturday when we stopped for a few hours in Ghent, there was no market here. The Hall located in a public square, partially sheltered by a modern twin-gabled timber roof meant to evoke the rooftops of medieval Ghent.