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Flanders Architectural Review N°16 Responses in Responsibility

On 7 November the Flanders Architecture Institute launches the latest edition of the Flanders Architectural Review.

Responses in Responsibility shows how both designers and clients recurrently adopt a caring attitude when engaging with the challenges of today. This responsibility manifests itself in careful approaches to the renovation of existing structures, ecological innovations that go beyond the norm, participatory processes for collective housing, and the recognition of diversity in both society and the field of architecture. 22 projects, 11 essays and 6 photographers not only shed light on the human, financial, material and ecological aspects of the built environment, but also explore the degree to which the decisionmaking processes are democratic.

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Exhibition Dogma: Urban Villa, Flanders Architecture Institute 2024 © Robbrecht Desmet

exhibition

Dogma about the urban villa

until 09.02.2025 | de singel, antwerp

On 3 October, more than 800 people attended the opening of the exhibition Dogma: Urban Villa at DE SINGEL in Antwerp. The exhibition focuses on how we can live communally and make housing in an urban environment more affordable and attractive. The renowned architectural firm Dogma sees a solution in a time-honoured building type: the urban villa.

The exhibition runs until 9 February 2025. Feel like catching a glimpse already? Check out the interview with Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara (Dogma) on our website.

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Exhibition Marie-José Van Hee, For Sun and Wind to

Exhibition

Marie-José Van Hee – For Sun and Wind to Paint on in Helsinki

07.02.2025 - 14.09.2025 | Helsinki

In the spring of 2025 the Finnish Architecture and Design Museum in Helsinki will organize an exhibition on the work of Belgian architect Marie-José Van Hee, following the presentation of the Alvar Aalto Medal to Van Hee in August 2024.

Bauwelt Kongress 2024

Lecture / congress

Bauwelt Congress - Geht´s noch? with Bas smets

28 & 29.11.2024 | Berlin

On 28 and 29 November the German Architecture Magazine Bauwelt organizes the Bauwelt Congress 2024 with the title Geht´s noch? in Berlin. Belgian landscape architect Bass Smets will give a lecture about Biospheric Urbanism.

Royale Belge, Bovenbouw, DDS+, Caruso St John image Stijn Bollaert

Prize / competition

Royale Belge wins European Heritage / Europa Nostra Award for Conservation and Adaptive Reuse

Organised by the European Commission and Europa Nostra, the awards celebrate and promote the highest standards in heritage interventions, research and education, training and awareness-raising.

Exhibition Soft Power The Brussels way of making city

Exhibition

Soft Power: The Brussels Way of Making the City in Basel

19.10.2024 - 16.03.2025 | Basel

The exhibition Soft Power: The Brussels Way of Making the City in Basel traces Belgium's journey to becoming an internationally renowned hotspot for contemporary architecture and urban planning.

Exhibition Picture Window Frame by Stefano Graziani and OFFICE kgdvs

Exhibition

Picture Window Frame by Stefano Graziani and OFFICE

until 30.11.2024 | Milan

Fondazione ICA Milano presents Picture Window Frame, an exhibition by Stefano Graziani and OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen.

Built Homecoming in the Research Centre. Picture Alejandro Campos Uribe

Exhibition

Spatial design by Olivier Goethals for the exhibition Built homecoming

until 12.01.2025 | Loenen

A modest part of the collection of architects Aldo and Hannie van Eyck in Loenen in The Netherlands is on display at the Research Centre. Spatial design by Belgian Olivier Goethals.

Reconfiguring Land: From building shift to culture shift’ in Koozarch

Publication

Oana Bogdan about collective stewardship in Koozarch

out now

Oana Bogdan of Brussels based architectural firm &bogdan puts forth a strong polemic against the neoliberalisation of land as property, and in favour of collective stewardship in Koozarch.

Public Space around Notre Dame in Paris by BBS

project

Public space and visitor's centre of Notre-Dame by Bureau Bas Smets unveiled

Autumn 2025 | Paris

The project for the public space and the visitor’s centre of Notre-Dame in Paris by Bureau Bas Smets was unveiled at a press conference in the City Hall in Paris. The work will start in Autumn of 2025 and will take three years until completion.

Peterbos 9 by 51N4E, in collaboration with Lacaton & Vassal

Publication

Three projects by Belgian architects in German magazine ARCH+

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Issue 257 of German architecture magazine ARCHI+ focuses on adaptive reuse. The projects ZIN and Peterbos in Brussels by 51N4E and project Verbiest by Agwa in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek are discussed.

Social Housing, Rozemaai, Atelier Kempe Thill together with RE-ST architecten, image Ulrich Schwarz

Publication

Four Belgian projects in Detail reference book: Building in Existing contexts, Living

out now

The book Building in Existing contexts, Living shows 26 best practice projects of which 4 Belgian projects: Abeel House in Ghent from Miass Architektuur, Steven Vandenborre Architecten, Rozemaai Housing in Antwerp by Atelier Kempe Thill and RE-ST, Linné-Plantes in Brussels by A2M and Site Apostolinnen in Mechelen by DMva.

Nutsterreinen Maastricht by awg

Publication

Densification project in Maastricht by awg published in Blauwe Kamer

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The urban design by awg architects 'restores' the (inner) urban structure and the edges of the building block of Nutsterrein Maastricht in The Netherlands.

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