Belval: the city as a territory of technological experimentation or “urban testbed”
“When I show foreign company executives around Belval, they can’t believe the impressive ecosystem that has been created here and are amazed to discover this secret, little known quarter that serves as a teeming laboratory.” These are the words of Laurent Probst, Partner, Economic Development, Digital transformation and Innovation at…
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…
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…
From Belval to Rodange, AGORA anticipated the development of the South
Conducted by the Luxembourg government and ArcelorMittal in 1997, three years before the creation of AGORA, the AGIPLAN study identified a development potential on ten or so sites totalling 650 hectares of industrial wasteland. An area five times bigger than Belval's. A huge territory to reinvent. AGORA has been working…
