OMA has won the design competition to deliver a new headquarters building for Belgium’s national railway company – SNCB/NMBS – in Brussels.

The practice, and local firm Jaspers-Eyers Architects, will deliver an 11-storey tall, 236-metre long block facing the railway tracks at Brussels South train station as part of a project that will also repurpose existing 1950s buildings at the station.

OMA said the headquarters was its first major project in Belgium, and that the proposed design would “preserve the ensemble” of the station’s three monumental – but disused – buildings fronting Avenue Fonsny, and deliver a combined 75,000sq m of new office space that would bring together al SNCB departments under the same roof.

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