Mons' year as European Capital of Culture kicks off with new convention centre by Daniel Libeskind — wallpaper.com

'It's not an expensive building but it's an elegant building and that's what we wanted,' says Daniel Libeskind. The architect is showing us around his latest project, a new convention centre - the Mons International Congress Xperience (MICX) - that is part of a wider regeneration masterplan for the pretty southern Belgian town of Mons, and the first of several projects planned for the city's year as European Capital of Culture.

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