{"id":2454,"date":"2026-02-07T04:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/2454\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:13:29","slug":"a-sneak-peek-at-sergison-bates-brussels-pompidou-on-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/2454\/","title":{"rendered":"a sneak peek at Sergison Bates\u2019 Brussels Pompidou on site"},"content":{"rendered":"

The images show construction of the \u00a3107 million scheme, which converts the 1930s Brussels Art Deco Citro\u00ebn garage and former car factory into a \u2018cultural city\u2019.<\/p>\n

The 40,000m2 multipurpose museum, gallery and atelier workspace will be Brussels\u2019 first museum of modern art and architecture, and will include performance auditoriums, workshops, community spaces and retail.<\/p>\n

All five floors of gallery spaces in Kanal have been finished along with the main superstructure \u2013 including the roof \u2013 between the buildings. Still to come is the fit-out between the existing cross axis of 18m-wide streets \u2013 one 100m and one 50m-long \u2013 that cut through the former factory and showroom complex.<\/p>\n

Plans for Kanal \u2013 Centre Pompidou were submitted in 2019<\/a> by Sergison Bates in collaboration with Swiss practice EM2N and Belgian outfit noAarchitecten. Drawings have also been released by the trio of practices.<\/p>\n

The three practices, which set up an international consortium under the name Atelier Kanal, won the job in a high-profile contest<\/a> the year before, seeing off an impressive shortlist of firms, including Caruso St John, 6a, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and OMA.<\/p>\n

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Kanal has announced its opening programme in collaboration with Centre Pompidou \u2013 officially opening to the public on 28 November 2026, delayed from an original opening date in 2023.<\/p>\n

The opening exhibition, A truly immense journey, will feature more than 350 works from the Pompidou, the Kanal collection and both Belgian and international public and private collections.<\/p>\n

In addition, the Turner Prize-winning British collective Assemble is creating a free-to-visit 700m2 indoor playground in the form of an imaginary landscape of hills, volcanoes and distant planets.<\/p>\n

Kanal \u2013 Centre Pompidou is being delivered in partnership with the Kanal Foundation and the famous Paris-based Centre Pompidou, together with the Development Corporation of the Brussels-Capital Region.<\/p>\n

While the scheme retains much of the garage\u2019s existing fabric, it inserts three new volumes: a 11,300m2 museum of modern and contemporary art; Brussels\u2019 architecture centre (formerly Centre International pour la Ville, l\u2019Architecture et le Paysage); and the Rassembleur, a multifunctional space that can be used for performances, workshops or exhibitions.<\/p>\n

The design team said it had honed its contest-winning proposals following a temporary exhibition, Kanal Brut, held within the garage in 2019. The show was a precursor to the wider overhaul, giving the public the chance to \u2018discover this mythical building in its raw state\u2019 before it closed in 2021.<\/p>\n

The 425m-long former Citro\u00ebn car factory, built between 1933 and 1934, sits alongside the Charleroi-Brussels Canal, close to Brussels\u2019 city centre. Its iconic showroom fa\u00e7ade, which is also being carefully restored, consists of a 24m-high glass and steel structure.<\/p>\n

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