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.
Tag: Zaha Hadid
Explore the groundbreaking designs of Zaha Hadid (1950-2016), an Iraqi-British architect who left her mark on Antwerp.
Bar Paniek, the Kattendijkdok summer bar that comes down every autumn
Since 2015 the artists’ collective Timecircus has built Bar Paniek each spring in two sheds on the Kattendijkdok, from salvaged wood and old window frames, and taken it down each autumn.
Port of Antwerp: Europe’s second port, seen from the water
Port of Antwerp-Bruges handled 266.5 million tonnes of cargo in 2025 and is run from a Zaha Hadid building on an old fire station. The way in is a boat from the Asiadok, from €23.
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.