A city in Belgium aspires to make it onto Europe's cultural map with an energetic building that ramps up the architectural volume. Once a medieval city on a hill in the French-speaking part of Belgium, Mons later became a center of heavy industry.

A Dutch design team transforms a former church into a sybaritic sanctuary of dining for a Michelin-star chef.

It can be done: a wheelchair-friendly environment that in no way resembles the typical one. 

Bruges may be best known for its centuries-old stepped-gable structures edging cobblestoned streets and narrow canals, and for its urban squares enclosed by idiosyncratic Gothic and Flemish Renaissance buildings.

A ten-story, 210,510-square-foot museum of the city of Antwerp, with exhibition galleries, a restaurant, an event space, and a panoramic terrace, as well as a plaza that includes a museum shop and a mosaic by Luc Tuymans.