Tagged Belgium

Aesop’s in-house design department has restored a centuries-old four-floor building on a corner of Antwerp’s Kammenstraat—a narrow, cobbled shopping street—for the company’s first Belgian store. Pee...

Serge Hannecart, Stijn Geeraets and Maarten Van Gool, who founded Fosbury & Sons in 2016, have just launched their new Brussels outpost, following the opening of a successful first space in Antwerp. Fosbu...

Designed by KAAN Architecten on the outskirts of Aalst, Belgium, the new Crematorium Siesegem is a building with a comforting sequence of spaces in symbiotic relationship to its tranquil surroundings. The proj...

House TP is located in the working-class area in Mechelen, Belgium. A single woman with green fingers bought there a little house next to the church and asked dmvA to reconstruct it. Due to the specifics of th...

On the occasion of this year's Contemporary Art and Architecture Triennial in Bruges, Korean studio OBBA has realized “The Floating Island”, a pavilion in long streamlined shape floating on the water, tryi...

Vudafieri-Saverino Partners has transformed a historic nineteenth-century Mansion into a space halfway between a concept store and an art gallery, in the name of eclecticism and contamination: a revolution in t...

The former Chapel of Sint-John in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium, has been recently transformed by architecture practice Van Staeyen into an eye-catching bar for local churchgoers and tourists....

Near the statue of Jan Van Eyck, Skyscraper (the Bruges Whale) rises up from the Bruges canals as part of the 2018 Bruges Triennial. The gigantic sculpture designed by Brooklyn-based architecture and design fir...

Utopia, the Library and Academy for Performing Arts, housed within a brand new building designed by KAAN Architecten, has opened its doors to the Flemish city of Aalst. The 8.000 square-meter brick structure in...

For five months, this prototypical architectural environment by architect Marc Fornes and his studio The Very Many, titled nonLin/Lin, will be on display for the first time at the Grootseminarie in Bruges for t...

This two-story apartment within a traditional Brussels townhouse has been recently renovated by Belgian architecture studios Mamout and AUXAU. The project highlights the heritage of this typical Brussels “Ma...

As part of 2018 Contemporary Art and Architecture Triennial in Bruges, Spanish studio SelgasCano has conceived a brightly-colored addition to the city’s famous canals. This year's Bruges Triennial unites f...

Founded by Xavier Leclair, Slow Cabins is a Belgian company that allows guests to rent one of three tiny cabins located in secret locations across Belgium. Slow Cabins helps city dwellers recharging their b...

Belgian firm Atelier Vens Vanbelle has recently completed a family house built behind an old school facade, dated back from 1908, in Ghent, Belgium. When Stijn and Annemie bought the listed school façad wit...

In 1976 architects Jean and Veronique Boland-Springal designed and built a row house for themselves in a sleeping quarters in Brussels. Even though owners changed several times and the building went through sev...

Artist Katrien Vanderlinden has created a colorful basketball court in the Belgian city of Aalst. Inspired by children's mathematical reasoning game named Logical Blocks, she added simple geometric forms in d...

Architects Edouard Brunet and François Martens teamed up to renovate and extend a Flemish villa located few kilometers away from Brussels. With its rather old-fashioned architecture, the house is charac...

Dutch firm Standard Studio has recently completed the new glasses store for Ace & Tate in Antwerp, Belgium. Located at the Steenhouwersvest, adjacent to the Kloosterstraat it’s part of the vibra...

Gent-based architecture firm Juma Architects has overhauled a dilapidated old town house in Bruges, Belgium, to create a modern and sleek home with due respect for the past. Although the house is located in the...

On the occasion of Art Brussels 2016, Miguel Chevalier imagines for the second time, a site specific generative virtual-reality installation, Complex Meshes, displayed across 8 panels on the ceiling of a privat...

An eye-catching structure that blurs the distinction between a tower and a stairway floats high above the famous Kabouterbos (fairy tale forest) and draws the curiosity of many Tielt residents and passers-by. T...