Foster + Partners has completed ICÔNE, a new office complex in Belval, Luxembourg. The 18,800 square-metre office building, filled with light and greenery, encourages a spirit of co-creation and collaboration. Its layout addresses the need for flexible and safe working environments that will emerge in the future. It also references the rich industrial heritage of Belval, revitalising the area by making a positive contribution to the site and its surroundings. The scheme is targeted to achieve a BREEAM Excellent rating.
Collaborating Architect: BFF (Beiler François Fritsch)
Foster + Partners Team: Spencer de Grey, David Nelson, Stefan Behling, Darron Haylock, Matthew Hayhurst, Bob Ramsden, Joana Santos, Dimitris Themelis, Apostolos Despotidis, Max Li, Samson Simberg, Gavin Fung, Mohamad El Khayat, Anna Maria Malla, Hugh O’Connor
Article source: gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner
The qualifying match for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar between Luxembourg and Azerbaijan took place on September 1, 2021, and was the first official match to take place in the new Stade de Luxembourg football and rugby stadium. The design by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) for the Grand Duchy’s national stadium was the successful winner amongst 25 competitors in the 2016 negotiated procedure. The new construction of the football and rugby arena to the south of the city of Luxembourg replaced the outdated previous structure and was built in cooperation with the local practice Beng Architectes Associés.
Occupying 2,900 square meters of exhibit space on three levels, this V-shaped museum is cantilevered over the ruins of Fort Thungen, part of defensive system that once secured Luxembourg’s reputation as one of the most fortified cities in Europe.
In Luxembourg, the French architect duo PETITDIDIERPRIOUX are currently developing several ambitious projects. The first to be delivered, the 99 units of Domaine du Kiem, situated on the Kitchberg plateau, is a true testament to Cédric Petitdidier and Vincent Prioux’s meticulous approach. Particular attention was paid to the relationships between inside and out, function and appearance, private and public.
The design of the largest startup center in central Europe, House of Startups in Luxembourg (HoST), tells the story of the city and the people who live there, and offers young technology companies a perfect work environment. The project, which occupies more than 6,000 meters spread out over 5 stories, is right in the heart of Luxembourg City and offers office spaces, meeting rooms, various types of open-plan workspaces, a conference center, and plenty of communal spaces. In the building, which is nearing the final stages of occupancy, more than 200 startup companies will ultimately be operating, creating a complete eco-system.
Luxembourg-based architectural practice, 2001, has completed Hercule, a monolithic concrete single-family house in Mondorf-les-bains, in the South of Luxembourg.
Named after local hero John “Hercule” Gruen for its robust strength, the volume emerges fiercely from the ground like the tip of an iceberg: the stepping of the plot, a residual portion of land situated between an old farm-house and a suburban villa, drove the design, breathing a strong sense of grounding into the site.
Article source: Lee H. Skolnick Architecture and Design Partnership
The Luxembourg Science Center has retained Skolnick Architecture & Design Partnership to design a new Interactive Science Museum and Education Center in Differdange, Luxembourg. The new museum will be a chance to adaptively re-use the site and existing buildings that had been part of an historic steel mill and to create a bold, exciting tourist destination for the city.
Together with the newly designed “Park Ouerbett”, the restaurant “Pavillon Madeleine” forms the new green centre of the community of Kayl-Tétange, in the south of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, close to the industrial city of Esch-sur-Alzette. The restaurant building is located at the intersection of the north-south road linking Kayl to Tétange and the circular path of the park. Its footprint of 10 m x 22 m x 4.5 m allows it to harmoniously blend into the park structure. The open space at the front, which features an outdoor dining area with approximately 40 seats and a barbecue area, defines the entrance to the restaurant and leads guests straight into the inside of the pavilion via a glass door. Here there is room for a further 40 guests. In front of the pavilion, seating steps provide direct access and contact with the water of Kayl creek, the quality of which has been upgraded through cleansing and other minor improvements of its banks. All the accesses to the pavilion and the inside are designed to be barrier-free.
The single-storey pavilion is located in the centre of Bertrange, at the crossing of Rue de Luxembourg and Rue de Leudelange. In the context of a redesign of Bertrange’s centre, a new town square is created in close proximity to the town hall and the church with a neighbouring park. The discreet cubic body is located right on the boundary of the square and the park. With its basic dimensions of 28m x 11m, it acts as a mediator between these two key urban features.
In Kirchberg / Luxembourg AllesWirdGut build an ensemble of two large and two smaller buildings accommodating a total of 110 apartments.
The stretched-out buildings in the Quartier du Parc in Kirchberg, Luxembourg, are situated on the northeastern edge of a development area. The northwestern side is bounded by Konrad Adenauer Boulevard. On the south side, the ensemble opens to Parc Reimerwee. Due to their orientation and different rental systems, the two volumes are seen as “fraternal twins”. Together, they make a strong duo that have certain things in common on the outside, while their interiors are different.
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