Park Spoor Noord
Former railway yard turned open city park, with lawns, ponds, skate bowl and a restored locomotive shed.
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This guide to Park Spoor Noord in Antwerp goes beneath the lawn of a city park that, until the turn of the millennium, was a railway depot walling off three working-class neighbourhoods. It follows the cleanup of the ground, the Italian studio that won the design competition, and the traces of track they wrote into the paths. Best heard on the open grass with the old locomotive hangar in view.
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