"Hôtel Torrentius" Renaissance Building in Liège/B
For the architect Vandenhove, taking over a house listed as a Belgian monument posed no particular problem. This late 16th-century townhouse had likely been built by Lambert Lombard for the secretary of the Prince-Bishops of Liège, the great humanist Laevinius Torrentius, and it appeared to be the embodiment of the design goals the architect had pursued throughout his work. This work is not based on the contrast between modernity and tradition. Vandenhove never sought the new or the original. He wanted to transcend fashions with an undeniably contemporary architecture and achieve the inherent logic of an architecture that transcends time.
