The Quiz: Antwerp, Belgium, home to this gleaming modern building, is known for its commerce in what?
A Diamonds
B Coffee
C Spices
For World Architecture Day, we’re featuring Antwerp’s striking Port House. Famed architect Zaha Hadid designed the gleaming addition to a 1911 firehouse in a style that’s intended to resemble the hull of a sailing ship with a protruding bow glimmering with diamonds, recalling Antwerp’s longtime trade in precious stones. Between 80% and 90% of the world’s rough diamonds, and 50% of its cut diamonds, are traded in Antwerp each year.
The correct answer to this quiz is Diamonds.