Brussels' ?125 million (£109 million) Centre Pompidou is to be designed by noAarchitecten, EM2N and Sergison Bates architects.
The international team's proposal, called 'A Stage for Brussels', won a competition against 92 other entries to reshape a former Citroën factory into the KANAL - Centre Pompidou. Swiss architect Roger Diener led the jury.

As a cultural hub for Belgium, KANAL - Centre Pompidou will be home to a Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and architecture centre the CIVA Foundation, as well as a series of public art spaces.
Last year the Parisian gallery announced it would also be opening a Shanghai outpost, located in the David Chipperfield-design West Bund Art Museum.

Brussels-based noAarchitecten, EM2N from Zurich, and the London office of Sergison Bates architects collaborated on their plan to strip out the 1930s industrial building and insert three volumes for the museum. "Rather than a spectacular gesture, our proposal offers an attitude of Radical Optimism: critical, receptive, dedicated, precise," the architecture team said in their statement.
"We want to radically engage with and trust what is there."

With it's wrap-around glazing the old car showroom will become a "display window" for the centre.
Next door, a electronic display will wrap around the top of the former Citroën workshop, to display information or be integrated into art projects. An old office block is to be demolished to make room for an extension...