92 Candidates for Conversion Citroën Cultural Centre

By DOCOMOMO Belgium / June, 10, 2017 / 0 comments

In connection with the architecture competition for the Citroën Cultural Centre, the Urban Development Corporation (SAU-MSI) has received 92 high-quality proposals in response to the call for project designers that it launched in late April for the conversion of the Citroën Yser garage next to the Canal in the centre of Brussels.

A selection committee will now examine these 92 proposals and use the defined criteria to shortlist seven teams for the second phase of the competition.

These teams will have until the end of the year to submit a project outline for the future cultural centre. On this basis, an international panel chaired by Roger Diener will appoint the future project designer in spring 2018.

A Cultural Centre of International Standing

The SAU-MSI has purchased the iconic Citroën Yser building in order to develop a cultural centre of international standing there, thus fulfilling an ambition of the Brussels-Capital Region. Once converted, it will be home to:
• a museum of modern and contemporary art (15,000 m2);
• an architecture centre (10,000 m2);
• public spaces, open to all, to be used for cultural, educational and recreational functions (10,000 m2).

The budget for the execution of the work is 125,000,000 euros plus VAT.
• The details of the architecture competition procedure are available here: www.citroenculturalcentre.brussels/en/procedure.
• The membership of the selection committee (phase 1) and of the panel (phase 2) can be found here: www.citroenculturalcentre.brussels/en/jury.
• More information: www.citroenculturalcentre.brussels.

Candidates

I.a. former Docomomo Belgium chair Pablo Lhoas and the co-founder of DOCOMOMO International Wessel de Jonge are candidates to join the international architecture competition:
51N4E / CARUSO ST JOHN ARCHITECTS
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD ARCHITECTS
FOSTER + PARTNERS / SYNTAXE
FRANCISCO AIRES MATEUS ARQUITECTOS
LACATON & VASSAL / CRIT. ARCHITECTURE / FREDERIC DRUOT
LHOAS & LHOAS / ORTNER & ORTNER
NEUTELINGS RIEDIJK ARCHITECTEN
OMA / WESSEL DE JONGE
RCR / COUSSEE & GORIS
ROBBRECHT EN DAEM ARCHITECTEN
SANAA

and many more

Source: www.citroenculturalcentre.brussels

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