02 September 2009

Harbour House // Antwerp // Belgium

This somewhat different building is Zaha Hadid's winning proposal for a harbour administration building. This ship-shaped creation has a total height of no less than 46 m, with a total space of 12,700 m2, filled with 500 working spaces. The cost of this dazzling structure? 31.5 million euro. Now the reason why the old building bellow the newer ship-shaped one still remains, is because it was to be preserved, thus making a construction of a new structure on the site frighteningly challenging, but obviously Zaha Hadid took the challenge and completed it with style, creating a very eyecatching new structure, literary on top of the old. 

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