Zonnebeke Library, Belgian Building, Image, Architecture, Chateau Park, Tyne Cot

Flanders building by Wim Supply Architect, Belgium

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New library in Zonnebeke, Flanders (Dutch : De Letterschuur)
2008
Wim Supply

Photographs : Jan Theuninck

Zonnebeke Library

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.

De Letterschuur Zonnebeke Library Belgium

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.



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Atelier Christian de Portzamparc

Hergé museum
image © Nicolas Borel

Antwerp Port House
Zaha Hadid Architects
Antwerp Port House
picture from ZHA


Covent Garden Brussels Building

Belgium Court of Justice, Hasselt

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Images + text received from Jan Theuninck 11 Apr 2008

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Zonnebeke Library - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt
 





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