a2o-architecten (Hasselt - Belgium) and Atelier Kempe Thill (Rotterdam - Netherlands) participated at the design contest for the new harbour building for the port of Antwerp. They were selected together with 4 other international architects offices like Vier Architectos (Spain), Zaha Hadid Architects (Great Brittan), Xaveer de Geyter architects (Belgium) and RAPP+RAPP (Netherlands).
It was Zaha Hadid who eventually won the competition with her bold design but a2o-architecten and Atelier Kempe Thill made a strong effort and were hard to beat. >>>
