| Zonnebeke Library, Belgian Building, Image, Architecture, Chateau Park, Tyne Cot Flanders building by Wim Supply Architect, Belgium e-architect |
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New library in Zonnebeke, Flanders (Dutch : De Letterschuur) 2008 Wim Supply Photographs : Jan Theuninck ![]() Architecture - Literature to remember the Great War Belgian architect Wim Supply realized an integration project in Zonnebeke, a village in Flanders' Fields, the battlefields of the Great War. In the Chateau Park, where you find the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, he built a cortensteel building to house the youth library of Zonnebeke.
![]() Not only the color of the building refers to the war, but he also put the text of a poessay by Jan Theuninck on its wall. This text, Tyne Cot, refers to Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces on the continent. Through 30 years of experience, Wim Supply became a most respected architect in Belgium : In 2003 he was the architect of a coastal project, named Literaal, where poems where put on dikes and public places alongside the belgian North Sea coast. Belgian Buildings - selection below: Hergé museum Atelier Christian de Portzamparc ![]() image © Nicolas Borel Antwerp Port House Zaha Hadid Architects ![]() picture from ZHA Covent Garden Brussels Building Belgium Court of Justice, Hasselt Library Buildings Belgian Architects World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe Images + text received from Jan Theuninck 11 Apr 2008 Comments / photos for the Zonnebeke Library building page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk Zonnebeke Library - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt |
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