Falconhoven Apartment Building
Antwerp, Belgium 2014–2020
Client: CIP - Construction & Investment Partners BREEAM Award 2019
This commission for an apartment building was won in a limited competition organised by the city of Antwerp. The mixed-use building contains fifty-one apartments, shops, and offices, and is part of a city block designed together with Flemish architects Bovenbouw, ONO Architectuur, and Dutch architects Rapp + Rapp.
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Model
Related news
Publication
Architecture Today
Building Study: Falconhoven Apartment Building
Antwerp, Belgium
February 2021
Caruso St John's Falconhoven apartment building is reviewed in the February edition of Architecture Today. Tom Avermaete explores the project's effect on the city through its materiality, details and references.
Construction has completed on the Falconhoven Apartment Building in central Antwerp. The building contains fifty-one apartments, as well as shops, offices, and a kindergarten, and is the first completed building in a city block designed in collaboration with Flemish architects Bovenbouw and ONO Architectuur, and Dutch architects Rapp + Rapp.
Credits
Location
Antwerp, Belgium
Date
2014–2020
Client
CIP: Construction Investment Partners
Area
9,000 m²
Caruso St John Architects
Adam Caruso, Peter St John , Rod Heyes
Project architects
Amy Perkins (2013-2014), Sam Casswell (2014-2015), Ted Swift (2015-2016), James Hand (2016-2020)
Collaborating architects
Rapp&Rapp, Ono, Bovenbouw
Executive architect
Bureau Bouwtechniek NV
Structural engineer
Establis Antwerpen bvba
Services engineer
Ingenium NV
Cost consultant
Bureau Bouwtechniek NV
Project manager
CIP NV
Acoustics
Venac Studiebureau bvba
Main contractor
Strabag
Photography
Filip Dujardin
Awards
BREEAM Award, Residential category
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