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A 1913 dispatching warehouse for flax thread on the River Leie in Kortrijk will be the location for the renewed Flax Museum. This building is on ‘Overleie’, the other side of the river, not far from the city centre. This rather inconspicuous brick warehouse has a typical interior of cast-iron pillars and beams. In order to accommodate the requirements for the museum, an additional shed is to be built on the roof as a logical extension of the industrial construction. The grid of steel pillars is extended upwards and the beams are laid across them diagonally at varying heights. A series of ridge roofs creates four pointed gables which together make a crown-like storey on the building. It is to be clad in gold-coloured corrugated sheeting as an allusion to the ‘Golden River’, which derives from the golden gleam of the retted flax in the River Leie. This ‘Golden Rooftop’ also gives the museum a distinctive presence on its site on the other side of the river, so that it projects itself into the overall visual aspect of the city.
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