The Aula Magna was inaugurated on, the year of the 575th anniversary of the University of Louvain, in the presence of the authorities of the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (KU Leuven), invited for the occasion, during a session to present the insignia of Doctor honoris causa of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) to four recipients: the writer of Lebanese origin Amin Maalouf, the German painter and photographer Gerhard Richter, the Spanish musician Jordi Savall and the Czech scenographer Josef Svoboda. Other planned constructions, like a new university museum, have never been carried out. The Aula Magna, built between 19, is part of an ulterior and additional phase with the aim to expand the city in the direction of the Louvain-la-Neuve lake, together with the Resort Urbain Agora complex (2015-2019). Three major construction phases followed one another until 1981. History Construction įorced to leave the city of Louvain (Leuven) after the Leuven crisis of 1968, the Université catholique de Louvain starts planning a move to the agricultural plateau north-east of Ottignies in current-day Walloon Brabant, where it built an entirely new university town from 1970 onwards. The Aula Magna has received the status of Registered monument and is included in the Inventory of immovable cultural heritage of the Walloon region under reference 2512-01. The UCLouvain Aula Magna seen from the Louvain-la-Neuve lake. The building stands next to the UGC cinema complex and opposite the hotel and the Resort Urbain Agora residential and hotel complex. On the city's underground, car-based level, the Aula Magna is enclosed within the Boulevard André Oleffe, the Aula Magna exit strip ( Quai 10) and the Terrasse de l'Aula, where the ground-level entrance is located (on n☁). On the upper-level, open air pedestrian level of Louvain-la-Neuve, the Aula Magna complex is located between the Place Raymond Lemaire (with a main entrance on n☁), the Rue des Frères Lumière, the Traverse Comte Yves du Monceau and Cours Michel Woitrin. The Aula Magna is located southwest of the Louvain-la-Neuve Grand-Place, between that and the Louvain-la-Neuve lake, of which it constitutes the northern point. Inaugurated in 2001, the complex was designed by Philippe Samyn. It holds one of the country's largest auditoria, with a maximum capacity of 1050 seats, and Wallonia's largest stage. The Aula Magna is a postmodern building of the University of Louvain located in Louvain-la-Neuve, a section of the Belgian city of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, in Walloon Brabant.
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