Square de l’Accueil Winning Proposal / ARJM
ARJM, in collaboration with SUM, recently won the competition for their project, “Square de l’Accueil” (Welcoming Square), which includes a public square of 10,000 m2, 53 flats, a school, commercial spaces and underground parking. Located in a neighborhood at a strategic entry point towards Evere, one of Brussels communes, the project itself includes all the components of the city at a smaller scale. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Habitation TSL / adn Architectures
Architects: adn Architectures
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Area: 350 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Filip Dujardin
Detached House in Uccle / L’Escaut Architectures
Architects: L’Escaut Architectures
Location: Uccle, Brussels, Belgium
Structure: JZH & Partners Scrl
Contractor: JDC Rénovations
Area: 180 sqm
Year: 2009
Photographs: Sarah Van Hove
Solvay Brussels School / ART & BUILD ARCHITECT
Architects: ART & BUILD ARCHITECT
Location: City of Brussels, Belgium
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 9,600 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Art&Build
Curo Garden / Raumlabor
The 2012 edition of Parckdesign, a biennial event dedicated to green space planning initiated by Brussels Environment and the Brussels Ministry for Environment, Energy and Urban Renovation, aims to reinterpret industrial wastelands, leftover spaces and interstices in Brussels. With this challenge, Raumlabor chose to open the gates to the spacious and pleasant courtyard of Curo Hall and to extend the public space by planning a whole series of concerted developments to comply with the uses of the local associations (whose activity is usually little known to the inhabitants of the neighborhood). More images and architects’ description after the break.
New Technical Institute – ECAM – Site UCL / MODULO Architects + KhôZé Architecture
Architects: MODULO Architects – KhôZé Architecture
Location: City of Brussels, Belgium
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Lieven Van Landschoot
Savonnerie Heymans / MDW Architecture
Architect: MDW Architecture – Xavier De Wil, Marie Moignot, Gilles Debrun
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Project Manager & QS: FORUM
Technical Control: SECO
Contractors: CFE, M&M Sitty
Photographs: Filip Dujardin, MDW Architecture
Stine-Gybels House / Pierre Hebbelinck
Architects: Pierre Hebbelinck
Location: 590 Avenue Dolez, 1180 Uccle, Brussels, Belgium
Photographs: Courtesy of Pierre Hebbelinck
Vanhaerents / Lhoas & Lhoas Architectes
Architects: Lhoas & Lhoas Architectes
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 9,520 sqm
Photographs: Maxime Delvaux @ 354 photographers
Residential Complex Le Lorrain / MDW Architecture
Architects: MDW Architecture
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Client: Commune de Molenbeek-St-Jean (public)
Project Team: Waterman TCA (Structural Engineer), MK Engineering (M&E Engineer)
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 835 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of MDW Architecture
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
