Philippe Samyn is a civil engineer,
architect and town planner with a
PhD in Applied Sciences. He founded
Philippe Samyn and Partners,
architects and engineers, in 1980.
Jean Attali, with a PhD in philosophy,
is a town planning and urban project
professor at the Ecole nationale supérieure
d’architecture Paris-Malaquais.
Europa is being built to become the headquarters for the European Council. It will
host future European summits, i.e., periodic meetings between heads of state or
government from the 28 EU countries. Europa will also be the new headquarters for
the Council of the European Union, a true «council of ministers» bringing together the
members of government of the various States.
Europa is a new building that incorporates the listed façades of the former
Résidence
Palace
, built in 1927 by Michel Polak, thus creating an unparalleled architectural back-
drop and a spectator to today’s most pressing democratic and environmental concerns
in the middle of Brussels’ European Quarter.
The design of this new complex, of great technical and artistic brilliance, deserved to be
described and explained, before delivery of the building: this book therefore represents
the analysis of a project and the account of a major construction site.
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