Johan Vandendriessche and Thibaut De Vos bring Nieuwpoort back with ‘The Grand’ to the time when Churchill was still staying there: “This will be the most beautiful building on the coast” | Immo kings of the coast

A fresh seventies and a mature thirties revive the ‘belle epoque’ at the North Sea. With ‘The Grand’ in Nieuwpoort, Johan Vandendriessche (75) and Thibaut De Vos (39) sign for an exclusive prestige project. More than 2,000 applicants queued for a flat in what was the most luxurious hotel on the West Coast a hundred years ago. “There are beautiful buildings in our country, do something with them.”