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To mark the beginning of the new TV season, the news channel LN24 welcomed the Brussels architect. In this interview with Joan Condijts, the channel's CO, Francis Metzger talks about some of his projects. He also talks about his work as an architect and teacher and discusses in particular the question of building a new national stadium on the Heysel plateau.

An article by Cécile Cannesson, architect at Ma2, published in “Bruxelles Patrimoines » whose last issue is devoted to the theme: Air, Heat, Light.

"According to architect Francis Metzger, the construction site should be completed by the end of 2022. "A look back at the saga and the agenda for the renovation of the legendary hotel. An article by Marc Beaudelot, published in La Capitale on Saturday 9 May.

Originally conceived as a concert hall and a festive celebration space for Brussels residents, the Aegidium could, at the end of its renovation, be invested by the “Théâtre Le Public”. 

“The restorations (...) are designed (...) in such a way to be both identifiable to an informed eye and almost elusive when they are offered to the eye, specifies Francis Metzgerin these 6 pages devoted to the Maison Saint-Cyr in the last issue of Historical houses and gardens. An article signed by Donatienne de Séjournet.

It is “rather like writing a second volume at the very heart of the first. A rare and complex exercise” explained in three pages in the last Plan Magazine.
 

Renovation to the question for the Palace of Justice and in the process of being completed for the “Galerie Louise”, soon underway for the Tournay-Solvay Castle, completely achieved for the Charle-Albert Castle and the Saint-Cyr House..

“The impression of the renovated “Galerie Louise” to the first onlookers walking by, in a few months will for sure be imbued with admiration and surprise: clearer, more luminous and airy lightness.” An article in “La Libre Belgique”

A little walk around the projects – old, new, future – and the work philosophy that presides over each of them. Interviews of Francis Metzger in Le Vif Week-End, Be Perfect, Discover Benelux, ...

Francis Metzger is part of the “special guests” of TLmag of October. Interviewed by Marie Honnay, the Brussels architect talks about his report to the old, their attitude towards the projects, ethics and beauty…

This Friday the 4th of October, the famous weekly magazine of the RTBF dedicated to Belgian talents devoted one of its sequences to the Palace of Justice of Brussels.

Contemporary design or fine restauration of classified heritage, according to Francis Metzger, the approach is identical. He explains himself on this issue in Discover Benelux dedicated to the architects of the country.

Published this summer in “La Libre Belgique”, this serial of articles invites us to (re)discover all these places of entertainment that originally had another assignment. This week, let’s present La Balsamine located in the abandoned former old barracks Dailly. An article showing how, architecture and artistic choices, can be combined.

Speaking in the microphone of Africa Gordillo’s broadcast “Soir Première” of 5 August they relate their passion for the construction conceived by Poelaert.

Justice be done at the Palace of Poelaert – An editorial and report by Daniel Couvreur in Le Soir of 5 August, followed by a few interventions of Francis Metzger in radio and television on
BX1, RTBF and RTL

Published in the journal of the Courts in June 2019, a story of Francis Metzger which tells how the search for archives can deliver stories and tales and how much it means to the architect when it comes to heritage and truth.

As the doors of exceptional buildings opens to visitors as part as the Brussels Art Nouveau &Art Deco Festival, the architect Francis Metzger who has renovated more than one of them, tells to Thijs Demeulemeester of L'Écho about his relationship to this remarkable heritage.

An article of Véronique Lamquin, in the Soir on the renaissance of the Diamond Palace.
 

It will be called the Corinthia Grand Hotel Astoria and should definitively regain its magnificence in 2021.

​​​​​The Minister-President of the Brussels Government Rudi Vervoort has visited the renovating site last Tuesday afternoon, located by the “Forêt de Soignes” in Watermael-Boitsfort. On this occasion, he has called for ideas concerning the future and affectation of this building. 

Ma² is in charge of the restoration of the Tournay-Solvay Castle, Flemish neo renaissance castle built in 1880 and left unoccupied.