Felix Pakhuis
Nineteenth-century dockside warehouse with a glass-roofed passage, now home to the city archive.
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This guide to the Felix Pakhuis on Antwerp's old Eilandje docks follows the dock workers and suppliers who found their way here by a name rather than an address, and the colonial sugar, tobacco, coffee and wine they handled. It reaches back to the architect Felix Pauwels and the fire that struck the warehouse within a few years of opening. Best heard standing in the glass-roofed passage that runs through the building.
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