Central Square, an ambitious design concept
Summer 2020. In the Square Mile car park, the first items of machinery appeared around the sintering ponds of the former sintering plant. urther to the west, power shovels are working to prepare the ground on which the first three buildings of the quarter will gradually be erected. Millenium, Twist,…
From remediation to provision of site services
Nothing pleases Vanessa Villeneuve more than putting on her hard hat and construction site equipment: she loves field work more than anything else. A civil engineer from the Charente region, she is responsible at AGORA for taking charge of infrastructure projects as well as monitoring the remediation concept and the…
Innovation: a solution to rising property prices?
Students, families, the elderly, local and international professionals... all profiles converge today in Belval. And in a global context of rising housing costs and intense demographic pressure in Luxembourg...
Belval: contemporary urban planning promotes heritage and reinvents it
In Belval, AGORA has not been satisfied with just promoting the conservation of the former steel installations of ArcelorMittal (formerly Arbed). From the very first reflections on the future of the site, it became clear that they should play a key role in urban life. They had to be given…
The future Central Square district, the vibrant heart of the Square Mile
Let's jump forward three years on the calendar: here we are in 2023. You are a proud new resident of Central Square. The sun caresses the picture windows of your apartment, immersing the kitchen in a warm light in the early morning. Through the window the blast furnaces are thrown…