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Editor Sarah Crew Deputy editor Sally Tipper Editorial Reporters Marie Dumont Andy Furniere, Julian Hale Nicholas Hirst, Senne Starckx Our cover image of a residential project under construction on the banks Art director Paul Van Dooren Managing director Hans De Loore of the River Meuse in Namur shows the changing face of Wallonia’s urban landscape. The upscale development, Port du Bon Dieu, supersedes a derelict AWEX/WBI and Ackroyd Publications Philippe Suinen – AWEX/WBI industrial site and sits strategically between the Walloon capital’s major Marie-Catherine Duchêne hospital and its city centre. A diverse clientele is targeted: civil servants, AWEX, Place Sainctelette 2 1080 Brussels, Belgium single-parent families and retired people swapping over-sized villas for the Tel: 00.32(0)2.421.85.76 convenience of an apartment. In line with environmental concerns, solar Fax: 00.32(0)2.421.83.93 panels are being incorporated to help power the whole complex. email: [email protected] %\EXLOGLQJRQDQXUEDQVLWHWKHSURMHFWğWVQHDWO\LQWRWKHUHJLRQDOVWUDWHJ\RI rethinking the design, density and strategy of towns and cities. Encouraging and supporting this move is FuturoCité, a private-public partnership which is transforming municipalities into green and smart spaces. Our six-page ğOHRQWKHSURMHFWRXWOLQHVKRZLWZLOOUHMXYHQDWHWKHUHJLRQ

The key is collaboration: from small businesses, international corporations, public authorities and citizens. Architects also play a vital role; in our +RPHDQG$EURDGVHULHVZHSURğOHWZRZKRGUDZRQ(DVWHUQDQG:HVWHUQ LQĠXHQFHV 7KH\ DUH ğWWLQJ H[DPSOHV RI KRZ WKH :DOORQLD DQG %UXVVHOV Cover Image regions are increasingly extending their horizons in shaping their future. Atenor: Port du Bon Dieu, Namur

2 wallonia and brussels magazine SUMMER 2013 04 BIG PICTURE Skywin projects in outer space

06 NEWS Headlines from across the region

08 BUSINESS No more bottlenecks, thanks to Cape Decision

10 INNOVATION DSi helps engines run smoothly

13 INVESTMENT 8 Knauf provides expertise in insulation

16 FILE 16 With the FuturoCité project, Wallonia is leading the march towards smarter, greener cities

22 HOME AND ABROAD Architects Li Mei Tsien and Gilles Vanderstocken

24 TOURISM A hotel that’s run on geothermal energy

26 GASTRONOMY BIS

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26 28 PANORAMA Launch of fashion label Krjst

30 AGENDA Open-air eating, jazz and theatre for summer

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Sonaca soars

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wallonia and brussels magazine 7 SUMMER 2013 WORK BUSINESS No more bottlenecks Walloon expertise is helping to guide the drinks industry around the world

BY ANDY FURNIERE

he consulting firm of Jean the feasibility of projects and assess Schrurs and Dominique Huret entrepreneurs’ long-term business Tis in Braine l’Alleud, just out- strategies. Through workshops and side Brussels, but its name refers to a training, they share the specialised place far off in Alaska. Cape Decision know-how that they’ve built up over is the tip of Kuiu island, where a light- several decades. You always have to house has been providing guidance to passing ships since 1932. “Just like Mechanical engineer Schrurs’ first adapt your solutions this beacon on the coast, we suggest expertise in the business world came the right decisions to entrepreneurs in at the steel wire specialist Bekaert to the unique context the beverage and packaging sectors, and global energy company Shell. so they know the best route to follow,” At the beginning of the 1990s, he JEAN SCHRURS explains operations manager Schrurs. entered the drinks and packaging sector at the Coca-Cola Company. For Cape Decision offers companies a decade, he developed Coca-Cola’s and institutions an array of activities in Europe and abroad, independent advice. For example, until he was appointed to lead the they optimise technological systems European manufacturing operations to increase the efficiency and eco- of packaging multinational Amcor. friendliness of the production. But His last stint as an employee was at AB they also help enterprises find new InBev, the largest brewer in the world, market opportunities, recommend which he quit in 2005 to start his own interesting collaborations, evaluate consultancy.

8 wallonia and brussels magazine SUMMER 2013 His partner, Huret, comes from a family active in the water and soft drinks industry, but developed an international career as journalist and producer at the American news channel CNN, the BBC World Service and the European Commission. This varied expertise formed an ideal basis for her role as communication specialist at Cape Decision, where she is in charge of the company’s commercial and administrative aspects. The two also regularly employ specialists in fields such as hydrogeology and financial planning.

7KH ğUPłV ğUVW DVVLJQPHQW FDPH IURP increase the enterprise’s efficiency. it comes to water usage. Two years a company Schrurs knew well: Coca- “Our priority was to make sure they ago, Cape Decision carried out a Cola. Since then, Cape Decision has produce what they can sell, not sell complex project for the Indian Ocean coordinated more than 45 projects what they can produce,” says Schrurs. fishing industry. In countries such all over the world. A major part of its as Mauritius and the Seychelles, the work focuses on food quality and 80 The consultants are no strangers tourism and the fishing industries are percent of project activity takes place to demanding circumstances. In the most important economic sectors, outside Belgium, with a focus on 2010, they assisted a rum producer and they sometimes have conflicting Asia. Their clients include businesses, in Haiti during the move of a plant needs. The job of the consultants was governments, development agencies to a temporary location after an to update the eco-friendly operations and international organisations such as earthquake had devastated the of the fish canning plants, including the UN. region. The assignment was an optimising the recycling of the water initiative of the Walloon government so natural resources are protected. A clear example of Cape Decision’s and the Inter-American Development global scope is a project from last year, Bank. Development banks are regular when a packaging multinational asked clients; the pair have also carried out the team to assess the quality systems of several projects for the European Bank plants in three very different countries: for Reconstruction and Development. Japan, China and Kenya. “You always have to adapt your solutions to the $QRWKHU KLJKSURğOH FXVWRPHU LV WKH unique context,” says Schrurs. “There UN, for whom Cape Decision assessed is not one magic way of removing the the working methods at water plants in bottlenecks in a plant’s production.” Burkina Faso and Mali, in West Africa.

In Mongolia, the consultants spent The main evolution in the beverage a year and a half coaching Vitsamo, and packaging sectors is the growing a local producer of fruit juice. In a attention to eco-friendliness. “We have country where natural vitamin-rich been aware of green innovations from CAPE DECISION food is rare because of the harsh the start, but sustainability is now almost climate, there is a large demand a standard concern,” explains Huret. For Established in 2005 for fruit juice. But the transport example, bottles are gradually becoming Headquarters at Braine l’Alleud of the juice concentrates from the lighter and the design simpler, to Consulting for the beverage and Netherlands and the competition reduce the impact on the environment. packaging sectors from multinationals pose a lot of Recycling is a hot issue and, fortunately Annual growth of around 7 percent challenges. for Cape Decision, Belgium has a good 80 percent of activity abroad, with 40 reputation as a recycling nation. percent in Asia Cape Decision’s strategic and commercial advice helped to double Companies are also increasingly NWWW.CAPEDECISION.BE Vitsamo’s production volume and interested in best practices when

wallonia and brussels magazine 9 SUMMER 2013 WORK INNOVATION A well-oiled machine Pioneering Tournai company develops high-performance tools for testing engines and lubricants

BY JULIAN HALE OSILO OS: B T O PH

or more than 10 years, award- Renault, PSA, Volvo, Chrysler, Toyota winning Delta Services indus- and Ford and lubricant producers Ftriels (DSi) has been leading Total, Castrol and Shell. In addition, the way with innovative products that DSi supplies industrial equipment help companies in the development of and measurement services around low-emission engines and high-perfor- the world, and it is involved in the Our company is ac- mance lubricants. high-octane world of racing, with the development of Formula 1 and Nascar tively involved in re- Despite its youth and size, the company engines. has an admirable track record. It won a search programmes Wallonia Innovation Prize in 2005 and Currently employing 20 people in the then picked up a global award for its industrial zone of Tournai-West, DSi with local unviersities research into lubricants. The company works with its clients as a research has also built up an impressive list of and development partner, helping THIERRY DELVIGNE clients from the automotive, lubricant, them develop products and solve their and aeronautical industries, including WHFKQLFDO SUREOHPV 0RUH VSHFLğFDOO\ major vehicle manufacturers such as DSi’s niche is to offer services and

10 wallonia and brussels magazine SUMMER 2013 equipment to help customers measure treatment systems such as catalysts and The company’s online oil consumption engine wear more accurately, to GLHVHO SDUWLFOH ğOWHUV +RZHYHU XVLQJ measurement is a good example of how measure oil consumption and fuel WKHVHğOWHUVFDQOHDGWRIXHOGLOXWLRQLQ radiotracer techniques can shorten dilution in internal combustion engines lubricants, meaning unburned fuel is the periods needed for engine tests. and to develop better lubricants. Its mixed with the lubricant. This changes This is probably the most remarkable major success story has been to develop the properties of the lubricant (oil), development in radiotracer techniques and apply radiotracer techniques, which in turn accelerates the wear of on the market because it means which help research engineers gain a critical engine parts such as camshafts engine tests can be reduced by a factor better understanding of, for example, and bearings. It’s a particular problem of 100 compared to conventional engine wear, engine oil consumption with direct fuel injection systems. methods. Plus, DSi has developed and the lubricant aeration process, and patented a methodology for the where bubbles appear in the lubricant, Radiotracers help measure levels of fuel real-time measurement of engine oil potentially leading to failures of dilution and the extent to which engine consumption. Radiotracer techniques bearings and other engine parts. DSi is parts are wearing out. There are two are used in a test centre at the company’s the world leader in the use of radiotracer major advantages to this. Firstly, they base, and these methods offer a techniques applied to the development make it possible to generate real-time quick response and highly accurate of lubricants and power trains: engines results while an engine is in operation. results online. Other advantages are plus gearboxes and axles which are Secondly, the fact they are extremely that engine parts do not have to be therefore, to all intents and purposes, sensitive means that tests take less dismantled and the company can vehicles without a chassis. time. The company’s key product is produce tailor-made products adapted called Thin Layer Activation, a method WRWKHFOLHQWłVVSHFLğFQHHGV One of the challenges engine that allows online wear measurements manufacturers are facing is the fact to be performed on running engines The company has a 1,400sqm test that vehicle emission regulations are without dismantling them. A range facility in Belgium, with modern test becoming more and more stringent. As a of radiotracers are now commercially cells equipped with radiotracing tools. result, manufacturers are being obliged available for testing internal The facility is a fully independent to equip their vehicles with after- combustion engines and lubricants. contract service centre offering real-

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WLPHUHVXOWVDQGDVLJQLğFDQWUHGXFWLRQ an award from the Society for the Tournai-West industrial area, where in costs as well as in the time clients need Automotive Engineering in 2005 for FRQVWUXFWLRQ RI DQ DGGLWLRQDOb EXLOGLQJ to develop products. It also has highly research on automotive lubricants. will start in September with 10 full- TXDOLğHG DQG H[SHULHQFHG WHFKQLFDO time jobs created as a result. The aim staff and can perform measurements DSi’s base in Tournai has proved “an LV WRb LQFUHDVHb '6LłV WHVW FDSDFLW\ ZLWK at the client’s testing centre or excellent location for a company like six more test cells dedicated to engine manufacture and sell equipment ours with 98% of our sales going to and lubricant development and testing adapted to the client’s needs. foreign countries”, says CEO Thierry with the use of radiotracer techniques 'HOYLJQHb Ń:H KDYH HDV\ DFFHVV WR applied to oil consumption, fuel Two DSi methods dedicated to ORFDO DLUSRUWV /LOOH DQGb &KDUOHURL  dilution, lubricant aeration and engine the improvement of lubricant and to Lille TGV station (for French wear. formulations were developed thanks customers) and we are only an hour WRDbMRLQWUHVHDUFKSURJUDPPHZLWK from Calais (Eurotunnel for UK the oil and gas group Total France. customers). So Wallonia Picardy One of them, for monitoring oil is the place to be for companies dilution on running engines using a involved with international business. new radiotracer compound, received “Our company is also actively involved in research and development programmes with local 2000: Company founded universities for the development by Thierry Delvigne of new products. We have found in 2001-2004: Development of Wallonia competent and reliable methodologies based partners based at the universities of on radiotracers Namur, Liège and Louvain-la-Neuve. 2005: SAE Award They have contributed actively in 2007: New engine and lubricant extending our range of products,” he test centre at Tournai-West added. 2012: Enters the aeronautics field

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12 wallonia and brussels magazine SUMMER 2013 WORK INVESTMENT Keeping the heat in Knauf Insulation is developing environmentally friendly business solutions, including a new insulation material

BY JULIAN HALE

ombatting climate change and Knauf Insulation has years of caring for the environment are experience and is one of the fastest Cmajor preoccupations of the growing and most respected names European Union. In addition to the in the industry. The company is policy debates taking place, a grow- committed to meeting the increasing ing number of companies are working GHPDQG IRU HQHUJ\ HIğFLHQF\ LQ QHZ on practical, environmentally friendly and existing homes, non-residential VROXWLRQVLQDUDQJHRIğHOGV2QHRI buildings and industrial applications. Our Visé factory these areas is the insulation business, Its results speak for themselves, with and a good example of a company that a turnover in excess of €1.2 billion will be a model of is committed to the environmental in 2011 and over 5,000 employees cause is Knauf Insulation, an interna- in more than 35 countries and 30 the kind of high- tional company with one plant in Liège manufacturing sites. province and European headquarters performance factory in Walloon Brabant. It produces in- “Wallonia has a unique location for sulating materials for industrial and any company that manufactures in we need in Europe commercial buildings and new houses, this region and exports products to and for the refurbishment of existing QHLJKERXULQJ FRXQWULHV 2XU SODQW LQ LÉON BUSTIN dwellings. Visé near Liège is very well located and

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wallonia and brussels magazine 15 SUMMER 2013 FILE TECHNOLOGY S FuturoCité is a fantastic laboratory making ‘green’ I B

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n March Walloon minister, Jean- classes can be done remotely, where budgets and infrastructure systems as Claude Marcourt, announced the energy consumption is adjusted daily economies sputter and living habits Icreation of FuturoCité, a new public- according to conditions and where change. private partnership pairing the region FLW\ RIğFLDOV DQVZHU FLWL]HQVł UHTXHVWV with international giants such as IBM through personal videoconferencing. Yet help is at hand. FuturoCité will help and Cisco and dedicated to making Though all this may seem worlds away Walloon public authorities understand Wallonia’s cities smarter. In doing so, from the ancient cities of Namur, Liège how other towns have dealt with such the minister for the economy, SMEs, or Mons, the future may arrive sooner issues and how they themselves can foreign trade and new technologies of than expected. approach similar challenges. It also the Walloon government and minister introduces them, with local SMEs, to for higher education of the French The FuturoCité partnership, which multinational organisations such as community has placed the region at also involves Deloitte, one of the IBM and Cisco who have pioneered the head of a worldwide movement world’s largest consultants, and ‘smarter city’ solutions. dedicated to using technology and the Mobistar, Belgium’s second-largest reams of data generated by modern mobile operator, is a bridge-building “FuturoCité is a fantastic laboratory FLWLHVWRPDNHWKHPPRUHHIğFLHQW and advocacy platform designed to making ‘green’ technologies available rejuvenate Wallonia’s cities, towns and to city-dwellers,” Marcourt told Wab. “It Imagine a city where weather villages. Like many urban areas across should help fundamentally transform LQIRUPDWLRQ LV XVHG WR SUHYHQW WUDIğF the world, which now account for more urban life and governance. We are jams and diminish crime, where than half of the globe’s population, proposing a set of innovative solutions doctor’s check-ups and student they face numerous challenges to their to the challenges raised by urban

16 wallonia and brussels magazine SUMMER 2013 crowding, mobility, energy costs and for solutions to cut costs and become not have complete plans or inventories the need to protect the environment.” PRUHHIğFLHQW2QWKHRWKHUKDQGWKDW for their property holdings,” he will create opportunities for existing explains. “A lot of work needs to “Almost all cities and communes companies as well as start-ups.” be done before you can make your face challenges with their budgets,” EXLOGLQJVPDQDJHPHQWPRUHHIğFLHQW explains Frank Butstraen, the executive Over three years, FuturoCité aims to FuturoCité uses an incremental director of FuturoCité. “But they also create a €100 million market, plus 20 methodology to help cities optimise have problems optimising their energy new start-ups and at least 200 full-time their energy management.” use, catering to an ageing population, HTXLYDOHQW SRVLWLRQV 6XFK MREV VD\V managing their transport services and Butstraen, could include researching In addition to advising public bodies, maintaining their infrastructure.” hi-tech software, installing urban FuturoCité will also help SMEs ZLğ QHWZRUNV RU PDNLQJ D GHWDLOHG looking to move into the ‘smarter While FuturoCité draws on the inventory of all a city’s property city’ business. This help will take the experience of its partners and helps holdings. IRUP RI ZRUNVKRSV RQ XVLQJ VSHFLğF Wallonia’s cities understand how they technologies, assistance in designing can modernise, it stops short of fully “Liège, for example, has four to business plans and business advice. analysing their data and implementing ğYH KXQGUHG SXEOLF VSDFHV -XVW WR Universities will also be encouraged the changes. “Our strategy is two- understand what is happening with to participate in and contribute to pronged,” explains Butstraen. “On those buildings and to manage them smart cities projects, with the partners the one hand, we help public bodies LQ DQ HIğFLHQW ZD\ \RX QHHG VHYHUDO providing cloud infrastructures for realise that they can go to the market people, especially since many towns do them to conduct research.

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FuturoCité is also intended to serve as and has begun to collaborate with three “FuturoCité is a bridge between the a vector between the various cities for large towns. The towns are currently public authorities and the private good practices. “One of our concerns collecting their data, which will be companies,” explains Philippe is that each city will do its own thing analysed by IBM to understand where Dubernard, smarter cities leader for and its structures won’t be applicable data mining can help, says Butstraen. IBM in the Benelux. The public-private elsewhere,” says Butstraen. “We want partnership instils a sense of mutual to make sure that solutions can be “Cities have various services which trust in all the actors, helping to build standardised and replicated so the will not share any data at all,” he the kind of ecosystem on which these costs of implementation are lowered explains. “The first thing to do is to multi-disciplinary, public-private and small communities can also define the different services operating projects depend. ride this innovation wave.” For the and gather all the info they have moment, FuturoCité’s priorities are the amassed.” Often public authorities Emmanuel Routier, director for 40 largest cities where 60 percent of underestimate the potential of business-to-business partnerships and Wallonia’s population lives, although smarter cities solutions, observes the International Machine-to-Machine collaboration is open to all 262 cities Butstraen. “Generally people think (M2M) Centre of Competence at Mobistar, and communes. they know what a smarter city is, but KLJKOLJKWV WKH EHQHğWV RI ŃVLWWLQJ URXQG Shortly after being launched, do not actually realise what and how the table with companies with different FuturoCité is already in the process of much can be done through such an knowledge bases, specialisms and selecting local SMEs with which to work approach.” experiences”. Creating an ecosystem

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wallonia and brussels magazine 21 SUMMER 2013 LIFE HOME AND ABROAD

Li Mei Tsien Raised in Louvain-la-Neuve, Chinese-Belgian Li Mei Tsien is an award-winning archi- tect. She is a founding director of Brussels urban planning company B612associates and lectures and writes on contemporary city architecture. She has worked in the RIğFHVRI,03HLLQ7DLSHLDQG%UXQR$OEHUWLQ/LÑJH

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Going green Energy-friendly hotel in Wallonia’s water capital supplies high-voltage heritage

BY SARAH CREW

hile the town of Verviers investment by Dutch hotel group Van Anne-Sophie, already owners of hotels once blazed a trail as an der Valk is transforming the area into a at Charleroi airport and in Nivelles, Winternational wool manu- key tourism and economic centre. One quickly spotted the building’s potential. facturer, a luxury hotel is continuing the ĠDJVKLS SURMHFW LQ WKH SLSHOLQH LV $X One of the earliest challenges was how tradition of technological innovation as Fil de l’Eau, a commercial and housing to heat such a vast structure. Belgium’s only hotel to be heated by venture that includes the City Mall geothermal energy. shopping complex. After exploring all the possibilities, they ğQDOO\ GHFLGHG RQ XVLQJ JHRWKHUPDO The four-star Hôtel Verviers approaches As you approach the town, the imposing energy – tapping into the heat its third anniversary with plenty to hotel is a distinctive landmark. Dating generated and stored in the earth. More celebrate: high occupancy rates, a from 1891, the red-brick former than 80 bore wells were dug to a depth booming seminar and event schedule LQGXVWULDOEXLOGLQJERDVWVDPDJQLğFHQW of 80m under the car park in front of and social hotspot status. As a 100m facade, with stylised windows the hotel (see box). The hotel is the pioneering reconversion of a former and arches and an extensive parking only one in Belgium to use this system railway customs depot, the €12 million area. Marco Wohrmann and his wife that provides heating, air conditioning

24 wallonia and brussels magazine SUMMER 2013 some people.” Among the hotel’s economic decline of the 1950s. Geothermal energy PDQ\DFWLYLWLHVDUHDFLQHPDFOXEMD]] Geothermal power, using the heat evenings and regular brunches. In recent years, the Vesdres area has that rises from the core of the earth to been undergoing a revival. As Wallonia’s its surface, is cost-effective, reliable, The rapport with the town is vital. RIğFLDO ZDWHU FDSLWDO VLQFH  LW sustainable and environmentally friendly. Situated a few hundred metres from the VWDJHV D QXPEHU RI WKHPHG SURMHFWV The 7,000m2 hotel uses two heating motorway, the 19th-century building The beautiful nature of the surrounding pumps (100KW) which provide heating in winter and air conditioning in summer. dominates the once prosperous wool countryside includes the nearby High They also enable the pre-heating of town of Verviers. For hundreds of Fens national park, abbeys and castles. water. The installation is housed in the years it produced unrivalled fabric 7KH +÷WHO 9HUYLHUV ZLWK KLJKSURğOH hotel’s basement. due to a winning combination of local local events and successful businesses, skills and particularly soft water from is playing a key role in revitalising the the River Vesdres. The early arrival of historic town and region. and hot water. The hotel’s ecological mechanisation thanks to English-born credentials extend to the use of LED local industrialist William Cockerill N WWW.HOTELVERVIERS.BE lighting and the recycling of kitchen established the town as a leading waste to produce biogas, and windows European wool manufacturer until the are all triple-glazed to insulate and soundproof.

The year-long renovation completely gutted the building to create 100 URRPV7KH\LQFOXGHQLQHMXQLRUVXLWHV ZLWK -DFX]]L DQG ğYH EXVLQHVV VXLWHV ZLWK D VSD EDWK 7KLUGĠRRU URRPV are all duplexes with beds aloft in a mezzanine. The furnishing throughout is similar: anti-dust-mite red carpet and stylish contemporary decor, with free ZLğHYHU\ZKHUH$ğWQHVVDQGZHOOQHVV centre occupy the basement, along with seven meeting rooms. There are WZRPRUHRQWKHJURXQGĠRRUEXWWKH PDMRULW\ RI WKLV YDVW VSDFH LV WDNHQ XS by the extensive reception area, lively brasserie and bar and the 200-seater restaurant, L’Entrepôt. This leads on to a south-facing terrace with an outdoor swimming pool that is also largely heated via the geothermal system.

Commercial director Michel Pauquet explains that the hotel’s clientele can be divided into three categories: corporate, leisure and event-orientated, such as the Formula One at nearby Spa Verviers Francorchamps. “There are many high- The town is full of reminders of the age when, from the late 18th century, its wool industry reigned in Europe. The Grand Théâtre and Law Courts are examples of Neo-classic SURğOH EXVLQHVVHV LQ WKH DUHD WKDW XVH buildings, the Post Office Neo-gothic, while Haussmann-style architecture is evident in our facilities,” he explains. “We have the rows of fine houses and squares. Visit the Wool and Fashion Tourist Centre to see British tourists who stop for the night on how wool was made and then don a headset to walk around the town’s Strand of Wool, the way to the Alps and clients who are a series of monuments from the wool trade. There are more themed walks that illuminate exploring the area or visiting Christmas its wool and cultural heritage. markets, and we are the place to be for ORFDOV 7KH IDFW WKDW ZH DUH MXVW  NWWW.PAYSDEVESDRE.BE metres from the station also attracts

wallonia and brussels magazine 25 SUMMER 2013 LIFE GASTRONOMY Holding on to a star Exquisite dining at Michelin-awarded restaurant in new Ardennes home

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inning a highly cherished DPSOH OLJKWğOOHG NLWFKHQ RYHUORRNLQJ The oldest parts of the building Michelin star is one both. The reception area also leads date from the 17th century and Wachievement; holding on to to nine bedrooms, with three more the renovation retains many rustic it is another. But when restaurant hotel planned. They include suites and features. They include bare stone walls Le Cor de Chasse moved from Barvaux URRPV ZLWK WHUUDFHV RYHUORRNLQJ WKH DQG HQRUPRXV ğUHSODFHV ZKLOH WKH to the picturesque village of Wéris last garden, outdoor swimming pool and a contemporary decor features stylish summer, food critics continued to be EUHDWKWDNLQJ YLHZ RI WKH VXUURXQGLQJ OLJKWLQJ DQG ğWWLQJV ,Q RQH VXLWH WKH ZRZHGE\RZQHUFKHI0DULR(OLDVłVğQH countryside. Downstairs there are bathroom is glass-walled to reveal the FXLVLQHLQLWVODWHVWPDJQLğFHQWVHWWLQJ WZREUHDNIDVWURRPVRQHZLWKDODUJH ğQH RDN PDQWHOSLHFH DQG UHVSOHQGHQW ğUHSODFH IRU ZLQWHU FRVLQHVV WKH oval bath sitting in a stone surround. 7KHLUVHDORIDSSURYDOZDVFRQğUPHGE\ other leading to a terrace for summer One decorative motif that appears the gastronomic bible announcing its residents. There is also space for hosting throughout the hotel and restaurant is awards for 2013 at the end of last year. seminars. wood in myriad forms: furniture, beams Elias was delighted – if not entirely DQGWKHZRRGUHOLHIDUWZRUNVWKDWDGRUQ surprised: “Everything is better here, the dining room. Outdoor sculptures, there is more room and everything is designed by the chef, are illuminated at new and chic.” night and visible to diners.

Le Cor de Chasse is certainly spacious. With the Michelin star assured, Elias The restaurant’s new quarters are in says his cuisine “can now naturally a renovated castle farm in a small, evolve”. He is a strong believer in local greystone village near the postcard- food. “People are no longer familiar pretty town of Durbuy. In addition to with home-grown vegetables. We are the 40-person dining room, there is a starting to grow our own vegetables and large communal table d’hôte with an herbs here and much of our produce is

26 wallonia and brussels magazine SUMMER 2013 sourced locally. We can get everything Netherlands. “But I don’t follow fashion tiramisu revisited and rhubarb and here.” While game is probably the most in cuisine,” he insists. strawberry with white chocolate, lime, typical regional product, Elias also VRUUHO DQG PLQW $QRWKHU VLJQDWXUH OLNHV WR XVH $UGHQQHV SRUN DQG EDFRQ One of his personal touches is to invite WRXFK LV WR FRPELQH PHDW ZLWK ğVK RU in his dishes, and with dairy being the diners to begin by inhaling a perfume seafood for a ‘surf and turf’ experience. RWKHU UHJLRQDO IDYRXULWH FKHHVH PLON such as lemon or mint before feasting Favoured products include pigeon, and butter are in plentiful supply. His on a dish that contains the same sweetbreads, langoustines and scallops. FXLVLQH UHĠHFWV WKH $UGHQQHV DOEHLW perfume. Inventive and adventurous with a gastronomic angle. while perfectly fusing simplicity and (OLDV DQG KLV IDPLO\ ŋ ZLIH $XURUH sophistication, he is no stranger to who heads front of house, and two There are two menus: the €50 four- molecular cuisine for a sense of drama children, aged 15 and 17 – conveniently course Discovery (plus €28 with wine and excitement. Playfulness is another RFFXS\ OLYLQJ TXDUWHUV DGMDFHQW WR WKH selection) and the €68 six-course VLJQDWXUH WRXFK $VNHG WR GHğQH WKH NLWFKHQ7KHFRXSOHPHWZKLOHZRUNLQJ Prestige (€33 for wine), as well as the NH\ HOHPHQWV RI KLV FXLVLQH (OLDV FLWHV LQ UHVWDXUDQWV LQ WKH $UGHQQHV UHJLRQ à la carte PHQX $ WKUHHFRXUVH OXQFK “taste, creativity and presentation, in at reputed local addresses such as menu is €33 (€50 with wine). Le Cor de addition to quality ingredients”. Château d’Hassonville in Marche-en- Chasse has a cellar of about 150 wines, )DPHQQHDQG/H6DQJOLHUGHV$UGHQQHV predominantly from France, with a His spring menu included red tuna with in Durbuy. Originally from Ostend, selection from Germany, Spain and FXFXPEHUUDGLVKDQGIHQQHOPDFNHUHO Elias moved to Wallonia as a child. He Italy. ZLWK FUDE $QMRX SLJHRQ VHUYHG ZLWK has an extensive culinary heritage as his morels, parsnip and Serrano ham; parents were in the restaurant business Elias changes the menu approximately DQGKLVJUDQGPRWKHUZDVDOVRDFRRN HYHU\WZRPRQWKVŃ,SUHIHUWRWDNHP\ It was in 2001 that the couple launched WLPHDORWRIUHĠHFWLRQLVUHTXLUHGDV, their own venture in the nearby village never create the same dish twice,” he of Barvaux, receiving the Michelin explains. He is sometimes motivated DFFRODGH LQ  $V RQH RI WKH PRVW by a particular product, while other exciting chefs in Wallonia, Elias and his LQĠXHQFHVFDQFRPHIURPWRSNLWFKHQV team are now in a position to become around the world, such as El Bulli and one of the region’s leading culinary 1RPD DV ZHOO DV IURP $VLDQ FXLVLQH ambassadors. and chefs closer to home such as Sergio Herman at Oud Sluis in the N WWW.LECORDECHASSE.BE

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28 wallonia and brussels magazine SUMMER 2013 :%'0 WKHJRYHUQPHQWDJHQF\WKDW Moriamé and Schillebeeckx, who E\:%'0IRUWKH1R6HDVRQSURMHFW SURPRWHVGHVLJQHUVIURP:DOORQLDDQG possess distinct personalities and The 23-year-old La Cambre graduate Brussels on the international stage. complementary design credentials, approached the brief with his own .UMVW ZDV RQH RI ğYH \RXQJ WDOHQWV launched their own label after leaving poetic and offbeat vision. He created VHOHFWHG E\ :%'0 WR MRLQ WKH 1R the prestigious Brussels fashion college two complementary photographs, Season showroom in Paris, a showcase last year. The intuitive decision to seek WKHğUVWVKRZLQJDGHVLJQLQDVWXGLR for upcoming talents. their own creative path in fashion the second in the form of a still life as as well as in art resulted in an open shown here. )LQDQFLDO LQYHVWPHQW E\ :%'0 DQG collaboration with several artists. the Prix Modo 2013 cash award have N WWW.KRJST.COM KHOSHG.UMVWODXQFKLWVğUVWFROOHFWLRQ Young Belgian photographer Quentin N WWW.WBDM.BE WKH XQRIğFLDO PXVH RI ZKLFK ZDV 'H:LVSHODHUHVKRWWKHLPDJHSLFWXUHG iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. here after being given carte blanche

wallonia and brussels magazine 29 SUMMER 2013 CREATE AGENDA

FESTIVALS CHASSEPIERRE FESTIVAL OF WALLONIA For two days every summer, the village of The theme of this year’s extravaganza of BROSELLA FOLK & JAZZ Chassepierre in Luxembourg province becomes classical music is love, explored through The leafy Théâtre de la Verdure in northern one big stage. Comedians, musicians, clowns, more than 150 concerts including Romeo and Brussels is the setting for this annual jazz and acrobats and many others share the pavement Juliet with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra folk fest, with artists from around the world. and do their thing for the public’s viewing of Liège. The seven festivals that make up Families are well catered for, with plenty of pleasure as the 200-strong population is swelled the event – Saint-Hubert, Brussels, Namur, activities for kids in a relaxed and family- by thousands of visitors. Dozens of companies Stavelot, Liège, Walloon Brabant and Hainaut friendly atmosphere. At the time of going to from around the world will transform pavements, – each have their own characteristics: an SUHVVWKHSURJUDPPHKDGQłWEHHQFRQğUPHG squares and the most unexpected places with a emphasis on choral singing in Namur, chamber but previous acts include The Chieftains, Philip host of visual treats in this charming Walloon music in Stavelot, early music in Liège, varied Catherine and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. village in the Semois valley. across instruments and epochs in Brussels... Spanish soprano Raquel Andueza (pictured) WHAT? BROSELLA FOLK & JAZZ WHAT? CHASSEPIERRE INTERNATIONAL plays Namur’s Saint-Loup church on July 12. WHEN? JULY 13 & 14 STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL WHERE? THÉÂTRE DE LA VERDURE, WHEN? AUGUST 17 & 18 WHAT? FESTIVAL OF WALLONIA BRUSSELS WHERE? CHASSEPIERRE, LUXEMBOURG WHEN? UNTIL NOVEMBER 15 www.brosella.be PROVINCE WHERE? VARIOUS www.chassepierre.be www.festivaldewallonie.be IFOU POUR LEPOLEMEDIA SPA THEATRE FESTIVAL As summer draws to a close, the Spa Theatre Festival gets going, with 12 days of intense live French-language performance in front BRUSSELS of 10,000 spectators. This year, the festival SUMMER FESTIVAL THEATRE strengthens its ties with the public through The biggest summer music events might be FRANKENSTEIN a programme of encounters with artists, out in the Belgian countryside, but Brussels The atmospheric ruins of Villers-la-Ville’s readings, theatre internships and workshops. Summer Festival never fails to deliver. For abbey are the perfect stage for this dramatic The Jealous Lover opens the festival with 17 10 days it celebrates contemporary rock and adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic tale. singers-actors-musicians paying tribute to pop from Belgium and beyond, with plenty Combining horror and philosophy, the original composer Grétry who died in Liége 200 years of opportunity to sample some excellent food mad scientist story is fascinating and terrifying ago; Hervé Guerrisi continues his exploration DQGEHHUZKLOH\RXłUHDWLW&RQğUPHGQDPHV all at once, with a rivalry between creator and of Italian emigration in Turnàta, and 11 actors this summer include Brits Madness and Amy creation that builds to a terrible denouement, star in the stage adaptation of One Flew Over Macdonald and local favourites Puggy and specially tailored to such an unusual venue. the Cuckoo’s Nest (pictured). Arno. 2SHQDLUWKHDWUHDWLWVğQHVW

WHAT? SPA THEATRE FESTIVAL WHAT? BRUSSELS SUMMER FESTIVAL WHAT? FRANKENSTEIN WHEN? AUGUST 9-20 WHEN? AUGUST 9-18 WHEN? JULY 11-AUGUST 10 WHERE? SPA WHERE? BRUSSELS WHERE? VILLERS-LA-VILLE ABBEY www.festivaldespa.be www.bsf.be www.frankenstein2013.be

30 wallonia and brussels magazine SUMMER 2013 EVENTS BRUSSELS URBAN BBQ Food, sunshine, fresh air and good company: everyone loves a picnic. This summer, the organisers of Brussels Urban BBQ invite you to share all of the above at Woluwe Park for a community picnic catered in part by Michelin- starred chefs Yves Mattagne and Gaetan Colin. For €10 you can enjoy tapas and a barbecue in a friendly atmosphere that brings together Brussels dwellers of all ages.

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