Church, Borgloon

Depending on one's perspective, the ten-metre-high church, composed of hundreds of alternating layers of one-centimetre-thick Cor-Ten steel and a nine-centimetre gap, is either solid or transparent. The closer one gets, the more the whole dissolves in the particular. The further away one stands, the more it looks like an archetypical parish church. The 'windows' in the church frame different views of the undulating landscape of the Belgian province of Limburg.

The result is at once familiar and alien. It refers to the emptying of the churches and indirectly asks the question: what is to be done with our religious heritage? But the really special thing about 'Reading Between the Lines' is how light and airy thirty tonnes of steel can be made to look.