At the beginning of this year, painter Koen van den Broek created a mural in the Vandenhove Centre for Architecture and Art in Ghent. This work of art, tailor-made for the building and inspired by Henri Matisse’s Chapelle du Rosaire, completes one of architect Charles Vandenhove’s last designs. 

The pavilion next to Henry Van de Velde’s Book Tower, on the corner of Rozier and Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat, was designed by Liège architect Charles Vandenhove (1927–2019), who donated his art collection to Ghent University in 2012. He was one of the most important and influential Belgian architects of the post-war period. He designed numerous remarkable public buildings and carried out renovation and housing projects in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, including the University Hospital (CHU) and the Hors-Château district in Liège, and the courthouse in Den Bosch in the Netherlands.