Napoleon ordered Antwerp’s first dock here in 1811. The old dock district now holds the MAS, the Red Star Line sheds, the city archive and a two-star restaurant in a warehouse of 1895.
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Havenhuis: Zaha Hadid’s glass ship on a 1922 fire station
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.