The Port of Antwerp-Bruges keeps about 500 staff in a 105-metre glass volume that Zaha Hadid set on top of a 1922 fire station. It opened in September 2016, six months after her death.
Category: 🏰 Landmarks
Experience iconic landmarks in Antwerp with our curated selection of must-see attractions. From historic buildings to modern monuments, discover the city.
The MAS in Antwerp stacks its history ten boxes high
The Museum aan de Stroom opened on the Eilandje in 2011: a 60-metre tower of red Indian sandstone holding more than 600,000 objects. Its best part costs nothing.
Antwerp Central Station: the railway cathedral that went underground
Louis Delacenserie’s station opened in 1905 as a terminus. A century later the railways dug 18 metres beneath it, and from December the Eurostar from London stops here.
Antwerp’s Cathedral of Our Lady took 169 years to build
Building started in 1352 and stopped, one tower short, in 1521. Inside are four works by Rubens, though one of them is away being restored for at least two years.