Bob Van Reeth

• Name — Bob Van Reeth • Born — 26 February 1943 • Birthplace — Temse, German-occupied Belgium • Died — 30 September 2025 • Occupation — Architect

Bob Van Reeth started working as an architect in 1965 with designing buildings in Mechelen and Kalmthout. In 1972, he became a teacher at the Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Bouwkunst (The National Higher Institute for Architecture) in Antwerp. The same year, he started the group Krokus with Jean-Paul Laenen and Marcel Smets. The group worked on the restoration of the old centre of Mechelen. In the 1980s, Van Reeth designed a new building for the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwecollege in Antwerp. Later buildings include in 2007 a new wing for the Westvleteren Abbey, and the black-and-white Huis Van Roosmalen facing the Scheldt in Antwerp. Close by stands the Zuiderterras, a grand café on the quay. He also led the company AWG (Architect Work Group) Architecten, which won the architectural concours for the design of a memorial and documentation centre about the Holocaust in Mechelen. In January 1998, Van Reeth became the first Flemish Government Architect (Vlaams Bouwmeester), a function he held until 1 June 2005 when Marcel Smets succeeded him. Van Reeth died on 30 September 2025, at the age of 82.

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The following is established of origins and background. Reeth died in 2025 at Bruges. It is also recorded that bob Van Reeth is recorded at birth as Robert Georges Jozef Luis Leo Van Reeth. Institutional cataloguing adds that bob Van Reeth was born in 1943 at Temse.