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Shortlisted teams announced for Centre Pompidou Brussels

The former Citroen garage that is to be transformed into a museum for modern and contemporary art in Brussels is seen on September 29, 2016

Seven teams have been shortlisted to design a major new cultural center in Brussels that will include a new Centre Pompidou.

An international architecture competition was launched in April to determine the design of the Citroën Cultural Centre, which will inhabit a plot of land at Place d'Yser, near the Canal and the historic center of Brussels. That land was purchased by André Citroën in the early 1930s to house his new car factory -- an enormous complex made of glass, steel and concrete designed by a Belgian and French architecture team.

The winning team will transform that modernist garage into a major museum complex, at the heart of which will be a Centre Pompidou Brussels, being created in partnership with Paris's own Centre Pompidou and planned to become the largest cultural center in the Belgian capital.

Spaces dedicated to modern and contemporary art will take up 15,000 square meters and will be joined by areas dedicated to architecture as well as multi-purpose public spaces.

A total of 92 applications were received in response to a call for project designers and seven were shortlisted. They are:

-51N4E / Caruso St John Architects
-ADVVT / AGWA / 6A
-Diller Scofidio + Renfro / JDS Architects
-Lhoas & Lhoas / Ortner & Ortner
-NOA / EM2N / Sergison Bates
-Office / Christ & Gantenbein
-OMA

Those teams will submit outlines of their vision by December 23, with a winner to be appointed no later than March 2018.