Thursday, January 22, 2009

Port Authority

Antwerp's Port Authority building. It's a very unique design and it's very obvious what this building is for.

In selecting the architect an open call was made and a shortlist of five firms were chosen:
Consortium of TV A2O Architecten / Atelier Kempe Thill / Marcq & Roba / BEG from Hassel, Belgium
Vier Arquitectos from La Coruña, Spain
Xaveer De Geyter Architects from Brussels
Zaha Hadid Architects from London
Rapp + Rapp from Rotterdam.

The Zaha Adid firm was ultimately chosen to design the building.

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