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New York Firm to Design Belgium Casino

BELGIUM – As reported by Architectural Record News: "Art, architecture, and gambling will soon come together on the Belgian Riviera to create one of Europe's new tourist hotspots. In July, New York-based Steven Holl Architects won a competition to restore and expand the Albert Place Casino in Knokke-Heist, a resort town on the North Sea.

"A René Magritte mural, The Ship Which Tells the Story to the Mermaid, provided the inspiration for the tripartite design, centering on a 20-story, 354-foot sail-like hotel and apartment tower.

" The existing early-Modernist casino, built in 1930 by famed Belgian architect Leon Stynen, will have its facade restored with a new curtain wall, and its interior modernized to create a grand entrance to the hotel.

"…Shops, restaurants, galleries, and pools will join an auditorium, a spa, and a public observation deck as parts of the 150 million euro ($185 million) project…"

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