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Xaveer De Geyter Architects gave the Provinciehuis in Antwerp one of the more quietly subversive facades in contemporary Belgian civic architecture: a white cladding punctuated not by the rectangular apertures that institutional buildings have defaulted to for centuries, but by triangular windows, their points angled downward like a scattering of arrowheads across the surface. Here the photograph finds the building's corner, where the two faces of the facade meet at a sharp vertical edge and the triangular windows wrap around it, continuing their pattern without interruption — a detail that makes clear the motif is structural logic, not surface decoration. Shot from below and tight to the roofline, the composition strips away all context, leaving only white cladding, grey return, and the repeating blue triangles rhyming almost exactly with the saturated cobalt of the sky behind them. Government buildings are rarely this hard to distinguish from the sky.
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