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De Maatschappij voor Stedelijke Inrichting van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (MSI), naamloze vennootschap van publiek recht, gevestigd in Brussel, zoekt voor onmiddellijke indiensttreding een projectleider (m/v) voor de opvolging van haar bouwprojecten. Lees meer

Op 19 januari 2021 presenteren A+ Architecture in Belgium en Architecture Workroom Brussels de laatste speciale uitgave van het tijdschrift: A+287 Practices of Change. Lisa De Visscher (A+), Roeland Dudal en Joachim Declerck (AWB), Maarten Gielen (Rotor), Tim Devos (Endeavour) en Veronique Patteeuw (ENSAP Lille, EPFL, KULeuven, OASE) gaan in gesprek over het thema van de praktijk van verandering. Het… Lees meer

Today more and more projects are emerging that are driven by a desire for public, social or ecological change. Lisa De Visscher, editor-in-chief of A+, and Roeland Dudal, founding partner of Architecture Workroom Brussels (AWB), engaged in a roundtable discussion with seven practices that are bringing about that change through their work and asked them about their vision, their instruments and the… Lees meer

Group Monument wou de woning op de site van hun kantoren in Ingelmunster terug de grandeur geven die het verdient.  Het huis uit 1925 die prijkt op de inventaris van onroerend erfgoed. De achtergevel werd bekleed met lichtgroen geprepatineerde koperen losanges. Een unieke toepassing door eigen arbeiders gemonteerd. Dit is gecombineerd met een sober lichtgrijs gevelpleistersysteem. Het pakt de anachronistische… Lees meer

The Redingenhof project encompasses the redevelopment of two streets in a residential area and the adjacent school grounds in Leuven. After a call for projects issued by the Flemish authorities to depave more and to set up test beds, the inhabitants themselves took things into their own hands. Together with the school, the city authorities and the design team made up of 51N4E and Plant en Houtgoed,… Lees meer

Liège-based architect Daniel Dethier questions the evolution of the architect’s trade. By concentrating on the HOSOMI project, he has placed the building’s life cycle and innovation at the centre of his concerns. This modular system constitutes a precisely formulated answer – from the prefabrication of elements in the workshop and from their possible adaptation according to the needs of users,… Lees meer

In Belgium, no less than 36 million tonnes of earth are excavated every year on building sites. Two million tonnes in Brussels alone. That material is not easy to keep, store and transport, so 60 per cent of it is thrown away as waste. Since 2019 BC materials, a spin-off of BC architects and studies, has been recovering the raw earth from the ground to convert it into new building materials. That is… Lees meer

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