When the building feeds the city
In Belval, AGORA is partnering with property developers carefully selected for their references and know-how. Gilles Bindels is one of them. The company he founded in 2009, Luxembourg Capital, has long been involved in the development of the site. After the Southlane Towers and the launch of the OMNIA residential…
Belval South: Priority for families
The last piece of the puzzle in Belval, in the Belval South quarter, AGORA wants to develop a universe for a comfortable family life in the heart of the urban density and the hectic bustle of the city. Multiplying the forms of housing for young families while avoiding the housing…
The importance and role of water in the urban development of Belval
An overview with engineer Vanessa Villeneuve and architects Frank Wallenborn and Beate Heigel.
Place des Bassins: a dream come true for architect Shahram Agaajani
Designing the Place des Bassins, imagining a new public squareon the remains of the former Belval sintering basins, was a stimulating challenge for the architects Metaform and Latz + Partner. Combining the new with the old, overcoming the depths of the basins and imagining multiple public uses: the task fascinated…
METZESCHMELZ: a participatory architectural and urban planning competition!
In order to design the foundations of the future Alzette Quarter, teams of architects, urban planners and landscape architects attended an intensive week-long design workshop watched by citizens who were invited to discuss their dreams for this territory at the same time. Interview with Jörg Faltin, the great orchestrator of…
Alzette-Belval: an exemplary cross-border collaboration towards an IBA?
In the wake of the Belval and Alzette revitalisations, a new Franco-Luxembourg urban agglomeration is taking shape. Here is the story of the prefiguration of a cross-border IBA, under the aegis of the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation - EGTC - Alzette Belval. In the long run, the IBA could…