Sport and culture at the heart of AGORA’s partnerships
This is a way of continuing its action with the partners who share its values of creativity, innovation and sustainability, such as the AGORA Red Rock Challenge and Sudstroum Escher Kulturlaf.
Fonds Belval: “In terms of amenities, we still have a lot to offer!”
Created by an Act of 2002, the Fonds Belval is a public body responsible for developing the public dimension of the Belval site. University, high school, research labs, cultural spaces, event venues, heritage etc.: for the past 20 years, on the former industrial wasteland, its architects and engineers have been…
Jourdan Serderidis: a happy entrepreneur and developer in Belval
This is first of all a success story the European way. It all starts in 2003 when Jourdan Serderidis, a Greek entrepreneur who has made his career in Belgium, founds Arηs in Luxembourg. he name chosen by the young forty-year-old looks promising: Arηs, pronounced , is the son of Zeus…
The industrial wasteland: a fascinating urban planning study subject
During the urban planning study on the Alzette Quarter, students architects were interested in the major AGORA project. And the aim was? To suggest their own ideas and train for the job on a site unique of its type. Supervised by their teachers from the Münster School of Architecture (MSA),…
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…
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,…
The University of Luxembourg, a Belval gem on the international scene
A hundred years ago, the worker in the “belly” of the steel mill had no idea that a century later his great-granddaughter would be able to walk on the same floor to take advanced university courses at a multilingual international university. Amazing. But basically not so different from the migratory…
Terrasse des Hauts-Fourneaux, a symbol of the past which has become a flagship quarter
They can be seen more than 10 kilometres away. The closer you get to the blast furnaces, the more spectacular their shimmering cylindrical structures and sky-scraping cages appear. And yet they remain a model of sobriety of its type. There has been no reduction in number of pipes in which…