The wait is over. The public tender for the design, construction, maintenance and decommissioning of the Belgian Pavilion was awarded to the winning consortium: Carré 7, Beyond Limits, OneDesigns, Pirnay Engineering and Polytech Engineering and their partners. Discover the winning design of the Belgian pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka here.
The winning consortium has presented their design
On July 18, 2023 the winning consortium presented their design at a press conference presided by the Minister of Economy, Pierre-Yves Dermagne, at the Space Pole. The Space Pole is located on the grounds of the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB), the Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI) et the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB). Ambassador Mikami Masahiro for Japan in Belgium also attended the ceremony.
The winning consortium is made up of a team of architects, engineers, contractors and project managers: Carré 7, Beyond Limits, OneDesigns, Pirnay Engineering and Polytech Engineering in collaboration with their subcontractors: JMA, Make It Right, A-tech, Arter and Nihon Housing.
All information about the pavilion, the vision behind it and the consortium can be found in the press kit.
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