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What Textiles and Translucency Bring to Public Space: 5 Lightweight Interventions

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

What do lightweight materials bring to public space with an ethical, ecological, and non-extractive design principle? Various textile textures offer a point of entry, being closer to the body than heavy conventional structural materials. Through its flexibility and responsiveness, it enables a form of soft enclosure rather than a fixed boundary in architectural space. Responding to minimal environmental stimuli, the fabric brings continuous movements into space. When layered or assembled, it produces gradations of density, depth, and enclosure, while recent innovative fabrication technologies extend the possibilities of its form and structural durability.

House WBVD / BASIL architecture

Valeria Silva — Tue, 06 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000

The street façade of this 1870s townhouse reveals nothing of the architectural interventions that were used to transform it into a contemporary home. Once the room-high door of the entrance hall is opened, you are surprised by the openness and architectural interventions. The original main volume was retained and extended with two diagonally stacked glass volumes. In the process, each intervention was accentuated in concrete or green colours. The kitchen with the void and the light-flooded central stairwell are the eye-catchers of this design, in addition to the bathroom with a view of the historic city centre of Bruges.

The Tower of Balance / Bangkok Project Studio

Hana Abdel — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The Tower of Balance is one of the twelve creations by six artists and architects invited to design outdoor art installations for the 4^th Triennale Bruges 2024 from April 13 – September 1, 2024, at the World Heritage City of Bruges, Belgium. The theme of this year’s event is “Spaces of Possibility,” with Shendy Gardin and Sevie Tsampalla as curators, inviting artists to discover potential in the World Heritage City of Bruges by incorporating art in different areas.

Spaces of Possibility: Unveiling the Installations of Bruges Triennale 2024

Maria-Cristina Florian — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:30:00 +0000

The fourth edition of the Bruges Triennial: Spaces of Possibility, curated by Shendy Gardin and Sevie Tsampalla, will be held from Saturday 13 April to Sunday 1 September 2024. This event promises to transform the streets and historic center of Bruges, Belgium, into a showcase of contemporary art and architectural interventions. With a focus on exploring the latent potential of this UNESCO World Heritage Site, the festival raises questions about how concepts like change and sustainability can interact with preservation.

Common Thread / SO-IL

Paula Pintos — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Common Thread is an immersive passage made from a 3D knit textile connecting a previously inaccessible 19th-century monastery courtyard in Bruges back to the city. Inspired by the medieval city’s lace-making tradition, the installation uses an innovative woven fabric to create an intricate spatial experience in a wave-like tunnel. It draws visitors in, emerging into a sunlit courtyard and engaging in a serendipitous exploration of history, craft, and technology. The transformed garden contains multiple worlds, threading past and future, form and matter, memory and space, against the rich backdrop of the monastery's surroundings.

Sumayya Vally, SO-IL, and Studio Ossidiana Are among the Invited Artists and Architects at Triennial Bruges 2024

Maria-Cristina Florian — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 06:30:00 +0000

The Bruges Triennial 2024 has announced its theme, “Space of Possibility,” along with a list of participating artists and architects and the locations of the 12 installations. Running from Saturday 13 April to Sunday 1 September 2024, the event will take over the streets and historic center of Bruges. Belgium, showcasing contemporary art and architectural interventions. The curators of this edition, Shendy Gardin and Sevie Tsampalla, have selected a list of 12 artists and architects who will challenge the existing locations within the city’s quarters in response to the theme which asks them to seek to reveal the hidden potential of the city.

Brugge Diptych Pavilion / PARA

Paula Pintos — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 02:00:00 +0000

Jon Lott / Para Project, completes the Brugge Diptych --a temporary pavilion for the 2021 Brugge Triennale, TraumA, Brugge, Belgium. The Diptych served as an event space for the Triennale’s programming, addressing issues in urban trauma, and was one of several international commissions open within the city through late Fall.

KTA Brugge Technical School / Planomatic architecture + Radermacher & Schoffers Architekten

Valeria Silva — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 13:00:00 +0000

The project to add a new wing to the KTA technical school in Bruges was obtained through a competition within the ‘Scholen van Morgen’ (Schools of Tomorrow) Flemish school infrastructure investment program. The brief was to design a new functional building in order to house 4 departments (automotive bodywork, interior decoration, woodworking, construction) that were previously located in the Bruges city center.

Villa BA / gosseye + verbeke

Paula Pintos — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Villa BA is a brutalist bungalow situated in a leafy neighborhood on the outskirts of Bruges.

Studio for Stained Glass Artist / Studio mxmxm

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 06:00:00 +0000

In 1956, the parents of the current residents built a modern bungalow house on this tree-rich plot designed by architects Jaqcues Pêtre & Jan Tanghe. The plan is conceived on a grid of 1,12 by 1,12 meters consisting of an outer shell of black tarred wooden walls interspersed with large windows and a cantilevered roof supported by 10 steel columns.

Urban Waterways: The Dynamics of Canal Architecture

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:30:00 +0000

Architecture remains in constant tension with natural forces. Designed around gravity, climate, and time, buildings are always part of larger systems. Throughout the world, designers have tried to mitigate natural forces by constructing hybrid spaces and structures, artificial areas where nature meets the manmade. Embodying this relationship, canals reflect a desire to direct nature and its flows. Today, these fluid spaces are opening up to new programs, projects that explore modern life and urban vitality.

Notary Van Damme / Govaert & Vanhoutte Architects

Andreas Luco — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Three notaries employ 24 employees in the Van Damme notary in Bruges. The building was designed around a number of essential spaces, such as auditoriums, meeting rooms, closed and open offices. This functional approach was aesthetically conceived to be reduced to its bare essentials. Minimal is combined with warmth, with an emphasis on line formation and proportions. The main materials that dominate both inside and outside are glass & concrete. The facade is largely glazed, alternately combined with concrete. Above the entrance, an overhanging glass cube provides shelter from the rain. The facade is a pattern of beam shapes in glass and concrete with well-considered proportions.

Ark Shelter / Michiel De Backer + Jakub Senkowski + Martin Mikovčák

Daniela Cardenas — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +0000

We are students of architecture, who put our heads together to rethink the way people live their fast and stressful lives. Today we witness a perpetual evolution of new technologies in the fast forward moving world. It is a never-ending story of daily pressure and continuous deadlines. We were thinking about a way to escape from our stressful lives and to get back to our roots. We believe people will find the break they need by bringing the nature back.

Residence WULF / CAS architecten

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 22 May 2020 02:00:00 +0000

In a residential area in the neighbourhood of the historical town of Bruges in Belgium, we can find this beautiful marriage of living and working. The clients, both doctors employed in a hospital in the vicinity, were dreaming of a new house with room for their medical practice at home. After looking around, they found the ideal location in a lot with originally two parcels including an old house. Cas Architects did the rest.

Water Works, the Exhibition by WORKac at Musea Brugge Goes Digital

Christele Harrouk — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:00:00 +0000

WORKac in collaboration with Musea Brugge and Cultuurcentrum Brugge has created an exhibition entitled Water Works. Set to run initially from March 7th to June 7th, 2020 at the historic Poortersloge in Bruges, Belgium, the exhibition has been temporarily closed to the public due to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic. However, the New York-based architectural practice has produced a brief video highlighting its six themed rooms and the eighteen projects on display.

Care Lab / dmvA

Daniel Tapia — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 05:00:00 +0000

Care lab is a part of the university building Vives North in Bruges. The building is completed in 2009 and designed by De Vloed architects. It consists of three annexes: a relatively closed concrete plinth, a three-story building, and a floating roof. Characteristic to this school building is the frequent use of exposed concrete for load-bearing walls and floors.

The Floating Island / OBBA & Dertien12

Rayen Sagredo — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Brugge in Belgium, also known as ‘Venice of the North’, is a city designated as a UNESCO World Heritage still showing the beautiful old section of the city in the Middle Age. The canal going through the city, along with the well-preserved structure, is the unique element of Brugge providing beautiful landscapes.

Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY Installs Coral-Like Pavilion in 17th Century Bruges Seminary

Jack McManus — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 14:00:00 +0000

As a part of the second Art and Architecture Triennial in Bruges, Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY’s prototype pavilion entitled nonLin/Lin has been taken out of storage and placed on public display for the first time. First commissioned and displayed in 2011 by the FRAC Centre in Orleans, France, the exhibition will explore the rise of computational form-making. The work will spend the summer installed in the nave of the Grootseminarie, a 17th century Cistercian Abbey hosting an exhibition curated by Abdelkader Damani entitled Liquid Architectures.