For 10 years this has been a changing landscape under a major and singularly enthusiastic urban project. Today, at the helm of its second phase, are new urban architects led by Marcel Smets and the uapS agency. Once used for cattle grazing, then an industrial heartland of soap factories, shipyards and sea-trade, it has today a new lease of life. A veritable reawakening of housing, services, shops, places to hang out, industrial heritage, sea-faring or port, a working past and contemporary architecture; a real cultural melting-pot.
