This year, ARC25 Awards presented prizes in three categories: Transformation and Renovation, New Architecture, and Don't Move, Renovate. Poot Architectuur won with the Castle in Antwerp project in the Transformation and Renovation category, while MAKER architects won the New Architecture award with the Urban Social Infill Project in Kortrijk. The Don't Move, Renovate Award went to Dutch architect Maarten van Kesteren.
This year, ARC25 Awards presented prizes in three categories: Transformation and Renovation, New Architecture, and Don't Move, Renovate.
Poot Architectuur won with the project Castle in Antwerp in the Transformation and Renovation category, while MAKER architects won the New Architecture award with the Urban Social Infill Project in Kortrijk. The Don't Move, Renovate Award went to Dutch architect Maarten van Kesteren.
ARC25 New Architecture Award, an initiative of the Dutch architecture magazine De Architect, announced the winner of the award on 25 September. Belgium is once again strongly represented: two of the three finalists are Belgian architectural offices.
The 31 social housing units in Kortrijk by maker architecten turn the rear into a second front. While the inner area is given a new face, the quality, the extensibility, the flexibility and the value of the houses is considerably increased. The extension of the dwellings on the rear plot allow contemporary forms of living to find their place in the neighbourhood: kangaroo living, students living at home, working from home or co-working areas, studio spaces, hobby rooms, resident elderly, visitor's room, flexible housing with newly assembled families, ...
Both the bricks and roof tiles of the existing houses are reused for the new façades. A façade system that has been developed to easily adjust openings for future changes.
Kasteel, a secondary school in the heart of Antwerp, has a large, stately entrance on Kasteelstraat. The building itself is embedded in the dense urban fabric, with its back to the surrounding developments and its façades facing an enclosed courtyard. Poot Architectuur transformed this 1905 school building, with its high ceilings and distinctive details, combining a careful restoration with new interventions.
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