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Dark Skies Sound Installation / Leopold Banchini Architects + Giona Bierens de Haan Architectures

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 26 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Dark Skies is a sound experience designed by Leopold Banchini and Giona Bierens de Haan in collaboration with DJ and producer DVS1. It is not an architectural pavilion but rather a large-scale sound system defining a precise space for bodies meeting in sound.

Waterzicht Apartments / Atelier Kempe Thill + BUUR + urban platform + evr-Architecten

Paula Pintos — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 03:00:00 +0000

The project “Waterzicht” is part of this new master plan called “De 4 Fonteinen.” It is right on the canal with a view of the 50-hectare De Drie Fonteinen Park on the other side, which dates back to the late eighteenth century and is one of Belgium’s oldest landscaped parks. It was designed as an English landscape garden and creates a romantic atmosphere with its old trees. The project borders a very fragmented and rugged hinterland on the eastern side. Here some powerful, transformed industrial buildings are situated, on the one hand, and a large working-class area with small terraced houses, on the other. In addition, the small river Senne flows here, which is completely channeled within dam walls. Its banks were replanted as part of the redevelopment above the walls. In the south, the picture is completed by the ring road of Brussels, visible from afar, which crosses the canal at a distance of about 300 meters with the impressive 1,700-meter-long and 35-meter-high Vilvoorde viaduct.

Moon Ra Pavilion / Leopold Banchini Architects

Paula Pintos — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Moon Ra is a vernacular structure built to dance around the fire. The large circular roof embraces the festival-goers and offers a temporary shelter for unexpected and wild behavior. Around the fire pit, the absence of a dance floor leaves the bare feet of the dancers in direct contact with the ground.

Blanket of Steel House / Atelier Tom Vanhee

Andreas Luco — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 09:00:00 +0000

A working-class house destroyed by fire was converted into a passive, environment-conscious house with a community purpose. By integrating the difference in the level of the landscape into the house, the relationship with the garden was preserved. The ground floor houses a flexible space thanks to the dividing possibilities of the curtains. A recessed wooden open staircase lets light penetrate deep into the house.