Tagged Belgium

When approaching Belgian designers Thomas Geldof and Carmine Van der Linden about their new home, the client proposed the question: “how can you respond to such a view that is shaped by nature and tranquillit...

WeWantMore highlights drag heritage of Brussels cafe with giant extravagant drag queen portraits and art deco inspired visual identity.  Le Grand Café is a Brussels based café with quite the history. Bui...

On the occasion of "The Crystal Ship by Night" light festival, urban artist known as SpY has realized the 'Barrier', an installation made with 5 high-powered lasers that create a unique 1.5 km red light that c...

Nature reigns in the restored Château de Vignée, a high-end boutique hotel deeply rooted the Belgian Ardennes. But not in a way you might expect. Belgian design studio WeWantMore brought the ancient estate’...

Designed by Atelier Vens Vanbelle for a client in the film industry, Alex Guesthouse was built to provide an unforgettable stay in a cabin-like space. "The owner works in the film industry and came up with a s...

Just outside the Belgian city of Antwerp, in the lowlands of Kruibeke, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh has unveiled a new permanent work of art entitled ‘Arcade.’ The artwork is located along a historic road which is...

This 32 square-meter cabin was designed and built by London-based firm De Rosee Sa to replace an existing structure and accommodate a guest house and studio as well as functioning as a seasonal spot for picnic ...

Danish artist Thomas Dambo has brought seven giant trolls to life in Belgium using old pallets, recycled wood, broken branches and fallen trees. The trolls - some of them busy at their chores, others just takin...

April saw the opening of August, a former Augustinian cloister that has been transformed into a sublime hideaway under the guidance of legendary Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen in his first-ever hotel proj...

Only a few months after the closure of their three-star restaurant Hertog Jan at the end of December 2018, Gert De Mangeleer and Joachim Boudens open their first new restaurant. L.E.S.S. by Hertog Jan (an acron...

The new Aesop store on Brussels' Rue de Namur designed in collaboration with Bernard Dubois Architects, explores Modern and Post-Modern curvilinear forms on the street level of a six-storey terrace. A streamlin...

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...