British practice triumphs in Belgian convent competition

By Elizabeth Hopkirk2018-09-06T11:14:00

Garden view. David Kohn Architects' scheme for Hasselt University beguinage

Historic building will become architecture school

David Kohn Architects has won an international competition to convert an 18^th-century religious building in Belgium into an architecture school.

The €8.9m (£8m) scheme for the University of Hasselt is the practice’s second major international commission this year, after it landed a 9,600sq m apartment building in Berlin in June.

Working with Belgian firm Bovenbouw Architectuur, Kohn will remodel a “beguinage”, which is a convent-like complex of buildings common to the Low Countries where “beguines” – or religious women who did not take vows like nuns – lived in sheltered communities.

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