{"id":4261,"date":"2019-07-31T13:34:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T18:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:08:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:08:35","slug":"among-former-coal-mines-in-france-and-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/31\/among-former-coal-mines-in-france-and-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Among Former Coal Mines in France and Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Earlier this summer, I returned to France to continue working on my Hauts-de-France Mining Basin<\/em><\/a> project and to present at a conference about resilience strategies<\/a>. While there, I photographed throughout the region, including at high-profile coal mine redevelopment sites. Among those I visited are the 51N4E<\/a>-designed C-Mine complex<\/a> and Koen Vanmechelen’s Labiomista<\/a> in Genk, Belgium, as well as the SANAA<\/a>-designed Louvre Lens<\/a> in Lens, France. Several of these photographs from the broader mining basin and former mines are below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Coal<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Coal<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Burned<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\"In<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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COAL MINE REDEVELOPMENT SITES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

C-Mine (Genk, Belgium)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"C-Mine<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"C-Mine<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thor Park (Genk, Belgium)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Thor<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Koen Vanmechelen’s Labiomista (Genk, Belgium)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Koen<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Koen<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

9-9 Bis (Oignies, France)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"M\u00e9taphone\"\/<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mine, Terril du 11\/19 (Loos-en-Gohelle, France)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mine,<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Noyelles-sous-Lens Terril (Lens, France)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Riding<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Louvre-Lens Museum (Lens, France)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Louvre-Lens<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Louvre-Lens<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier this summer, I returned to France to continue working on my Hauts-de-France Mining Basin project and to present at a conference about resilience strategies. While there, I photographed throughout the region, including at high-profile coal mine redevelopment sites. Among those I visited are the 51N4E-designed C-Mine complex and Koen Vanmechelen’s Labiomista in Genk, Belgium, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[482,403,479,478,437,404,477,422,243,480,481,483,444,486,484,485,223,473,433,475,476,474],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photograph","category-text","tag-9-9-bis","tag-belgium","tag-c-mine","tag-coal-car","tag-coal-mine","tag-france","tag-genk","tag-hauts-de-france","tag-industrial","tag-koen-vanmechelen","tag-labiomista","tag-lens","tag-loos-en-gohelle","tag-louvre-lens","tag-oignies","tag-patrimony","tag-redevelopment","tag-resilience","tag-spoil-tip","tag-terril","tag-thor-park","tag-valenciennes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/C-Mine.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pFuNp-16J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4570,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions\/4570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}