In Liège, on the bourgeois Quai Godefroid Kurth bordering the Meuse River, stands a building resembling a modern castle. Completed in 2023 by the Olivier Fourneau Architectes firm, the project attempts to synthesise sometimes contradictory styles and ambitions.

Originally, there was a vacant lot between a neoclassical house and an Art Deco-style church, owned by private clients who wanted to build a small office building with two apartments above it. To fit into this unique context, the architects set themselves the delicate challenge of creating a transition between heterogeneous styles and sizes. Thus, the composition of the first two levels borrows from each of its neighbours. While the height of the base and the presence of an oriel window on the upper floor echo the bourgeois residences located upstream, the semicircular arches on the ground floor are reminiscent of the grammar of religious buildings. Finally, the nuanced colour of the brick completes the desire to fit into an urban continuum.