ROCKING OUT
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Daft Punk
let rip during
a set in 2007
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A ticket to an
event includes
free public
transport to Belval
03
Fans rock out
at a gig
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ROCK OUT AT
THE ‘HAL
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03 Nov ...............Texas
06 Nov...............The National
07 Nov................M
11 Nov.................Pixies
15 Nov................Nick Cave
16 Nov................Bob Dylan
22 Nov ...............Hurts
23 Nov ...............Sigur Rós
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post-industrial eyesore. That year, a firm of Dutch
architects, Jo Coenen & Co, won a redevelopment
competition. Their novel proposal was to retain two of
the huge blast furnaces and other gigantic sections of
the steel-making process, and build a university town
around these relics.
The conversion of Belval is costing €450 million and,
when the first students move in, they’ll discover that
their library has been hollowed out of the old furnace
complex and, to get to lectures, they’ll weave in and out
of gantries across which molten metal was once
transported. As well as the University of Luxembourg,
Belval will also contain the National Archives and a
business ‘incubator’ for developing new enterprise. But,
most excitingly, students will find they’re living on top
of the biggest, coolest, music venue in this part of Europe
– even if it still looks like a steelworks.
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