KURTH . Wallonia
Olivier Fourneau Architectes . photos: © Stijn Bollaert
The building on Quai Kurth (2020-2024), adjacent to the Dutch-style Protestant church erected in 1929, perfectly illustrates the adaptive writing, achieving an astonishing osmosis of a subtle dialogue of materials, writing, and masses. Volumetrically, it skillfully plays with its position and scale attached to the neighboring quay ensemble, and its direct articulation against the religious building: this special situation generates a powerful and expressive plastic writing, monomaterial, notched, swayed, including the surfaces of the adjoining gable walls. Continue reading Olivier Fourneau
