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AZ Zeno
IN-DEPTH LOOK
A futuristic hospital building
As you pass through Knokke-Heist, a seaside town in
Belgium, a futuristic building grabs your attention. The
eye-catcher is the hospital, and it has won a prestigious
award at the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam.
Maybe choosing Extremis furniture had something to do
with that?
In 2007, the hospital organized a competition for architects
to come up with a design for a new hospital. Three Belgian
architecture firms (AAPROG - BOECKX. - B2Ai architects)
teamed up and won this competition. Eleven years later, the
building was opened and reviews are stunning. We were
very curious about the why, how, and what of this building,
so we sat down with Pieterjan Vermoortel, CEO from B2Ai
architects and asked him everything about it.
