jo taillieu architecten

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An abandoned building. Never again suitable for the expectations of its day. Still meets the regulations. But couldn’t these expectations perhaps not expected differently as well? Shouldn’t a psychiatric center be expected to be as an expected ordinary hospital? No abandoned building. But a new place to stay. The building should be as the building was. As its best. A place as how a plaza should be. Today.

team
architecten de vylder vinck taillieu / DVVT, BAVO, UTIL

surface
1800 m2

photographs
Filip Dujardin

nominations
Mies Van der Rohe Award 2019, Silver Lion La Biennale de Venezia 2018, Prijs publieke route 2017, Architectuurprijs Oost-Vlaanderen, European Prize for Urban Public Space 2018, Simon Architecture Prize 2018

prize
Henry van de Velde Award 2018