The Maison de l’Innovation stands among Belval’s industrial remains without trying to compete with them. Its restrained architecture was designed as part of an innovation cluster, providing working space for research in fields where advanced software, scientific expertise and practical application meet.
LIST has its main address here, making the building a serious centre of day-to-day research with no need for futuristic theatre. A talk, conference or open event is the most likely way for visitors to experience the interior. That is enough. Belval’s story is not only the dramatic rescue of old structures. It is also the quieter decision to fill the new ones with useful work.
