The ZIN design by 51N4E / Jaspers-Eyers / l’AUC
Project: The ZIN
Location: Brussels
Architects: 51N4E / Jaspers-Eyers / l’AUC
Client: Befimmo
End User: various
Status: Completed 2025
Surface above ground: 117.000 m²
Surface under ground: 68.000 m²
Total Surface: 185.000 m²
Awards:
CTBUH - Best Tall Building (100-199 meters) - Winner 2025
CTBUH - Best Tall Building Europe - Winner 2025
CTBUH - Best Tall Building Worldwide - Winner 2025
CTBUH - Repositioning Award - Shortlisted 2025
MIPIM - Submitted 2025
Staalbouwwedstrijd BELUX 2024 - architecturale elementen - Nominated 2024
RES Awards - Commercial Development - Winner 2025
FEBE Elements Awards - Precast in Structures - winner 2023
MIPIM - Best Futura Project - Shortlisted 2022
European Property Awards - Best Mixed-Use Architecture in Belgium - Winner 2020
be.exemplary - Winner 2019
Architectural Competition - Winner 2019
Location: Brussels
Architects: 51N4E / Jaspers-Eyers / l’AUC
Client: Befimmo
End User: various
Status: Completed 2025
Surface above ground: 117.000 m²
Surface under ground: 68.000 m²
Total Surface: 185.000 m²
Awards:
CTBUH - Best Tall Building (100-199 meters) - Winner 2025
CTBUH - Best Tall Building Europe - Winner 2025
CTBUH - Best Tall Building Worldwide - Winner 2025
CTBUH - Repositioning Award - Shortlisted 2025
MIPIM - Submitted 2025
Staalbouwwedstrijd BELUX 2024 - architecturale elementen - Nominated 2024
RES Awards - Commercial Development - Winner 2025
FEBE Elements Awards - Precast in Structures - winner 2023
MIPIM - Best Futura Project - Shortlisted 2022
European Property Awards - Best Mixed-Use Architecture in Belgium - Winner 2020
be.exemplary - Winner 2019
Architectural Competition - Winner 2019
Photographer: Maxime Delvaux
The innovative project ‘ZIN in No(o)rd’ aims to reuse the emblematic WTC I and II towers located in the heart of the Northern Quarter in Brussels. Instead of a simple restoration of the existing building, it is a question here of adding an unprecedented dimension to the project by connecting the towers with a new volume of 14 double-height floors, creating a new condition for the development of a hybrid building mixing a new way of working on housing, a hotel, sports and leisure spaces, shops and lots of vegetation. The relationship to the city is also completely redesigned with an open-ground floor with many addresses, developing a range of relationships to the city and the public space. The project is thus a response to the surrounding context and future developments. This new flexible concept will introduce a new standard in Europe for large-scale mixed buildings.
The project insists radically on reuse, not only by considering the current building as a material bank but also thanks to an innovative architectural concept. By playing intelligently with the conditions and by complementing them with a number of strategic interventions and a prospective dimension, a robust building is designed. In the future, it can adapt flexibly to changing use. By adding a new volume with double-height floors, by providing various traffic circuits with many accesses, and by activating the urban space as if it were a shared hall, a mixed complex is set up which has not been thought for a type of use, but which may evolve over time.
In ‘ZIN in No(o)rd’, about 3,900 Flemish officials will find a new, inspiring and sustainable workplace focused on the idea of exchange and flexibility. The office spaces will offer the opportunity to meet and collaborate in a green and healthy work environment with varied surroundings. The apartments will be rented, and an innovative concept is planned for the hotel part, in collaboration with a specialized operator.
Source: 51N4E / Jaspers-Eyers / l’AUC
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