Tagged Belgium

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...

Ghent-based architecture studio OYO has recently completed this family house with an unusual shape in the Belgian village of Maldegem. OYO was given carte blanche, which opened the possibility to focus on an ec...

Koen Pauwels and Wim Van der Vurst of Belgian architecture practice i.s.m.architecten. have recently refurbishes this minimal apartment in Leuven, Belgium, adding transparent partitions. The main goal of the re...

Belgian architects Edouard Brunet and François Martens teamed up to convert a typical Brussels terraced-house into two separate apartments, adding a glass box to provide stunning views of the surroundings. Or...

Dutch practice Juma architects has recently transformed a typical 1976 bungalow into a contemporary villa in Belgium. Nothing remains of the original layout. The changes start with the entrance door, which has...

In designing this glass house in the seaside village of Knokke, Belgium, local architects Govaert & Vanhoutte have blurred the boundaries between the inside and outside, providing stunning views of the rura...