Architects: Ney & Partners
Location: Knokke, Flanders, Belgium
Client: Flemish Community
Project length: 110 m
Budget: $1,700,000 euro
Construction year: 2004–2007
Photographer: Daylight
Architects: A2RC Architects
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Client: Palais des Congrès sa and SPF
Artist: Arne Quinze
Budget: 60,000,000 €
Area: 52,000 sqm
Competition year: 2000
Project year: 2002-2006
Construction year: 2006-2009
Photographs: A2RC Architects
© Filip Dujardin
Architect: ARJM (Abdelmajid Boulaioun)
Location: rue de Jerusalem, Chaussée de Haecht, Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belguim
Project: 5 logements Social + Cabinet médical
Project Team: Abdelmajid Boulaioun, Jean-Marie Bertin, Michel Cuypers, Emmanuel Toglet, Ryo Inagaki
Structural Engineer: Michael Nguen, Brussels
Client: Renovas ASBL
Contractor: Balcan, Brussels
Project Year: 2009
Photograph: Filip Dujardin
Conix Architects in collaboration with JV Realys have won the competition to design the Belgian Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010.
The structure of a brain cell is the dominant conceptual image for the pavilion. It aims to evokes the artistic and scientific richness of Belgium and the country’s central position within Europe.
The brain cell also refers directly to the role of Belgium as one of Europe’s main gathering centres and cross-points of 3 great cultural traditions: the Latin, the Germanic and the Anglo-Saxon. Belgium, closely connected to its surrounding countries, has always been a ‘place of balance’ where people have gathered with common interests that surpass their national needs.
Seen at designboom. More images after the break. read more »
After two years of construction, the Musée Hergé designed by Christian de Portzamparc is complete. Situated in a forest and connected by a footbridge to Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, the museum is dedicated to Belgian artist and Tintin author Hergé. The museum highlights Hergé’s life and works through cultural facilities, permanent and temporary exhibition areas, and a video projection room.
Images and more about the museum after the break. read more »
Belgian practice BURO II sent us their latest project in collaboration with Alph’, in charge of the interiors and the furniture design.
The volume is at the head of a row of buildings, on the corner of the village square. Due to the location, its character is determined by the village square to a large extent. The designers took this into account by making the wall facing the village square completely transparent. This unique building consists of an apartment (+1), an office (0) and a partial cellar (-1). There is a separate entrance to the apartment.
The Stone Company, a natural stone company in Zulte, underwent a true metamorphosis. The renovated display hall cum meeting and office space was decorated austerely and elegantly with the natural stone product as a calling card used in all its facets. Belgian practice BURO II was in charge of this renovation.
Belgian practice BURO II designed some new projects around this historic site with a great importance to the city of Ostend. This is, amongst others, determined by its location: the proximity to the sea the Royal Galleries and the historically important Thermae Palace. The former racecourse for horse racing was turned into a collection of projects, and a crossroads of activities, which bring a new urban dynamic to ‘the queen of seaside resorts’.
Architects: BURO II & BONTINCK
Location: Bruges, Belgium
Client: NV Codic
Project Year: 2007 -2008
Constructed Area: 42.000 sqm
Photographs: Kris Vandamme
Architects: V+/Bureau vers plus de bien-être
Location: Ternat, Belgium
Client: Cortier – De Lat
Design Team: Jörn Aram Bihain, Thierry Decuypere, Shin Hagiwara
Engineers: Kathleen Mertens
Contractor: CPR Construction (main construction), De Meersman (carpentry), FMP (metalwork)
Design year: 2001-2003
Construction year: 2003-2005
Surface: 360 sqm
Budget: 325.000 euro
Photographs: V+, Olivier Chenoix, Patrick Van Roy
Belgium opened a new €20 million “zero emissions” polar science station in Antarctica on Sunday, returning to the continent to study climate change 42 years after closing its first base there.
The Princess Elisabeth research hub is totally energy-self-sufficient and also aims not to emit any carbon dioxide, according to the International Polar Foundation, which runs the base.
Read the full article, here.
Belgian practice BURO II sent us this extension of the existing offices for the property developer Vanhaerents. It is an excellent example of collaboration between Buro Interior and Buro II.
They sent us some photographs taken by Jean Godecharle, but no drawings are available yet.
The Belgian architectural and interior office Buro II sent us this impressive house made from an old barn. More pictures and text after the break.
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