Since September 2019, Namur’s cultural centre, Le Delta, has been open to the public once again. Following an intensive study process, this distinctive building, designed by Victor Bourgeois, has been renovated by Philippe Samyn and Partners.

The building dates from 1964, two years after Victor Bourgeois’s death. The project was thoroughly imbued with his modernist style. From his very first sketches, the architect had envisaged the building as a complex combining a structure, a public space, art and garden architecture. The location of the new ‘Palais de la Culture’ in the very heart of Namur’s historic centre was also a success: at the confluence of the Sambre and the Meuse, next to the historic Halle al’Chair where meat was sold in the 16th century, flanked by the garden designed by René Pechère which acted as a buffer between the river and the building.