Charleroi Police Headquarters by Ateliers Jean Nouvel and MDW

CHARLEROI – Considering that the new police headquarters in Charleroi, Belgium was the product of a 2011 design competition focused on creating ‘a public and agreeable image of the police’, one might wonder how the architects settled on a seventy-
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