Belval Stories
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…
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…
Live at the office, work at home: new formulas break the rules
The Millenium residential complex developed in Belval by the Luxembourg developer Tralux is based on a provision of 104 apartments. A large number of housing formulas have been put forward in this wide range of proposals. This was AGORA’s initial choice, when it launched the call for submission of projects…
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...