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David Chipperfield

Hertogensite residences . Leuven

David Chipperfield Architects . photos: © Maxime Delvaux

The Hertogensite residences are located at the edge of the medieval centre of Leuven, an important university city near Brussels. The project forms part of a masterplan for the redevelopment of a former hospital campus that had previously divided the west of the city from the centre and as such will contribute to the opening of the site and its reintegration into the surrounding city. Set on a narrow site between a fragment of the city’s medieval wall and a branch of the River Dijle, the development is unique in that it combines several residential typologies: a 14-storey tower, nine townhouses and a small apartment block, uniting them in a single building. Continue reading David Chipperfield