A Wood Screen for Dinant Road / Corbacreative
Architect: Corbacreative sprl
Location: Belgium
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 250 sqm
Photographs: Corbacreative
Cheval Noir Housing with Artist’s Studios / L’Escaut + Atelier Gigogne
Architects: L’Escaut + Atelier Gigogne
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 3300 sqm (Renovation), 752 sqm (New construction), 177 sqm (Outside space)
Photographs: Marc Detiffe
AD Classics: Expo ’58 + Philips Pavilion / Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis
In 1956, preparations had begun for the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. This was to be the first World’s Fair held since the end of World War II, the concept behind the Expo was to celebrate the rejuvenation of civilization from the destruction of war through the use of technology. This World Fair is best known for the musical advances that was combined with architecture, creating a gestalt through an experiential encounter where body meets sound and space.
Cultural Centre Ieper / BURO II & ARCHI+I
The new centre for youth and culture right next to the station in Ieper aspires primarily to be an informal meeting place for all ages and nationalities, an objective that pays tribute to the city’s tradition as a tolerant city of peace. The recent disappearance of the cattle market has freed up space for a use which will impart a new momentum to the area, both by day and by night. The programme offers a unique synergy between public and private functions: bringing together a cultural centre (CCI), the youth meeting centre (JOC) and the centre for educational projects and activities (ARGOS).
Architectuur: BURO II & ARCHI+I
Location: Ieper, Belgium
Project Management: THV Vanhaerents – Alheembouw
Stability: Establis nv, Roeselare
Technical: Studiebureau Boydens, Loppem
Theater: TTAS, Gent
Safety Coordinator: VeCoBo bvba, Waregem
Photographs: Klaas Verdru
Open Call 21.14 Proposal / SUMoffice & Van Noten
The design team SUMoffice & Van Noten recently won the Open Call 21.14 in Moorsel, Belgium. The project consists of the conversion and extension of the presbytery into a meeting centre for youth and other associations and the redesign of the presbytery garden into a publicly accessible garden. More images and project description after the break.
Schoten Workshop Building / Loos Architects
Architects: Loos Architects
Location: Schoten, Belgium
Project Year: 2006
Project Area: 2,375 sqm
Photographs: Allard van der Hoek
The Cube Restaurant in Brussels
Previously featured on ArchDaily, The Cube Restaurant is a pavilion designed pop up restaurant by Park Associati that will travel throughout Europe providing a unique dining experience with spectacular views. Photographer Danica Kus shared these photographs of the completed restaurant as it sits atop the Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.
Architects: Park Associati – Filippo Pagliani, Michele Rossi with Alexia Caccavella, Alice Cuteri, Lorenzo Merloni
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Client: Electrolux Home Appliances Emea N.V.
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Danica O. Kus
Envisioning Urban Futures: Winning Machelen-Diegem Masterplan / Maxwan Architects + Urbanists
Maxwan Architects + Urbanists shared with ArchDaily their winning proposal for the Machelen-Diegem masterplan. This urban area is located in Brussels, Belgium and is filled with historic value. The site, located between the arteries of the capital of Europe (surrounded by airport, road and rail infrastructure), in the vicinity of strategic economic development, near a large city, yet affordable living in a green environment, Machelen and Diegem is a very interesting area. The nature of the site poses a variety of challenges for the designers.
Read on for more on the resolutions of this urban plan after the break.
Team KCAP-Arup-Fakton presents vision redevelopment of Heysel Plateau Brussels
KCAP Architects & Planners present their vision today for NEO Brussels, the redevelopment of the Heysel plateau, , to the political arena, the press and the public. The team, KCAP working together with advisors Arup and Fakton, won the international design competition in September 2010. The area is one of the most strategic locations in the Brussels Metropole Region. The design for NEO Brussels aims to strengthen the significance of the Heysel, and to qualify it within a framework for sustainable development. More images and complete press release after the break.
De Zande Community Institution / BURO II & ARCHI+I
Architects: BURO II & ARCHI+I
Location: Beernem, Belgium
Project team: Arch. Ramona Nicolaescu, Arch. Maur Dessauvage, Arch. Jo Baeke, Arch. Frederik Populier, in collaboration with cenergie and landscape architect denis dujardin, Int. arch. Bart Decloedt
Project area: 1,593 sqm
Project year: 2009 – 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of BURO II & ARCHI+I
Hecq / adn Architectures
Architects: adn Architectures
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Collaborators: David Henquinet, Nicolas Iacobellis, Didier Vander Heyden
Project area: 143 sqm
Project year: 2005 – 2009
Photographs: Filip Dujardin
Against Symmetry / Europe Studio Architects
The imposing architecture and monumental scale of Brussels’ landscape are some of the characteristics that establish the personality of the city. A distinctive example of the aesthetic architecture that orients and at the same time governs the area of its presence is the Law Court. This proposal for the future formation of the Law Court of Brussels, Belgium by Europe Studio Architects moves in parallel to the existing frame and function of the building and proposes the re-establishment of the internal system that made this court a public social space in addition to its political and judicial functions. The monumental and programmatic aspects of the building will be preserved, with additions of cultural functions such as gallery and exhibition spaces.
More on this project after the break.
Galante Store / Creneau International
Architects: Creneau International
Interior design: Simone Pullens
Account mgmt: Babs Van Hassel
Project mgmt: Wim Janssen
Client: Galante
Location: Bruges, Belgium
Date of completion: 2011
Photographs: Philippe Van Gelooven
Canopy House / MDMA
This eye-catching house in the picturesque Pajottenland landscape was designed by MDMA. Although its form stands in contrast to the surrounding area, the exterior walls and roof reflect the traditional colors of earthernware with gray-brown wooden shingles and polycarbonate sheet with dark orange insulation behind. The result is a house that both fits and stands out from its setting.
Architect: Martine de Maeseneer Architects (MDMA)
Location: Pajottenland, Belgium
Project Area: 600 sqm
Photographs: Filip Dujardin
The Bronks Youth Theatre / MDMA
The Bronks Youth Theatre in Brussels consists of two halls, two holes in-between of which a central circulation shaft is situated. The staircase has the shape of a double helix with swing doors (coated with mirrors) placed on every intermediate landing. MDMA call it ‘the septum’. It regulates the use of the halls in a myriad of ways. MDMA tried to make the halls, materialized in concrete, float and soar in light. Apart of the staircases, circulation ‘around’, consist for a large part out of ramps. They render a sense of detachment from the horizontal, the horizon.
Architect: Martine de Maeseneer Architects (MDMA)
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Project Team: Gunnar Degerlid (Project Team), Xavier Callens, Annette Chu, Ruben Van Colenberghe, Kristiaan Van Weert, Kathleen Decock, Iris Van Rijsbergen
Structural Engineer: ABT Antwerp & BAS Jaspaert Leuven
M&E Engineer: BEC Brussels
Acoustics: Daidalos Peutz Leuven
Theatre Technics: TTAS Ghent
Safety Coordinator: Jos Van Loon Brussels
Project Area: 3,500 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Marie-Françoise Plissart, Filip Dujardin
Social Housing in Brussels / Nicolas Vanden Eeckhoudt & Olivier Noterman
Architects: Vanden Eeckhoudt-Creyf
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Project area: 1,600 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt
Healthcare school extension and renovation in Hogeschool Gent / Marc Koehler Architects
Marc Koehler Architects and their team have won the competition for the extension and renovation of Campus Vesalius at Hogeschool Gent. The project is part of Open Call 19, organized by the Vlaams Bouwmeester in 2010 and developed with Delva Landscape Architects, Import Export Architecture, Daidalos, STBViaene and Less is More engineering. More images and complete press release after the break.
Brussels Courthouse: Imagine the Future Competition Winners
The Belgian Buildings Agency and the Department of Justice recently announced the winners of their Brussels Courthouse: Imagine the Future International Ideas Competition. To make the issues of architecture and urban design more widely known, BOZAR Architecture has backed this initiative by hosting the awards ceremony and staging an exhibition of the entries at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels until May 15th. More images and description of winning entries after the break.
Primary School Bocholt / UArchitects + LENS°ASS architecten
UArchitects has, in cooperation with LENS°ASS architecten from Hasselt , won a competition for a new school building The Bridge in Bocholt, Belgium. The special sustainable school is in the form of a circle in an effort to engage the neighborhood into the school with activities and possibilities of an extension.
More on this project after the break.
The Cube Pavilion / Park Associati
Architects: Park Associati - Filippo Pagliani, Michele Rossi with Alexia Caccavella, Alice Cuteri, Lorenzo Merloni
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Client: Electrolux Appliance Spa
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Park Associati
Triamant Haspengouw Velm / Buro II & Archi+I
Architects: Buro II & Archi+I
Location: Halingenstraat, Belgium
Project area: 9,200 sqm
Project year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: Filip Dujardin
