350 apartments   The 16th arrondissement is characterised by grandeur: boulevards, buildings and apartments are all imposing and generous.   The project is set up to add this kind of generosity to the brief, which asks f...

Renovation of textile factory into artist studios.   The building is situated on the Buda Island, an area dedicated to become the city’s cultural center point. The factory will house up to 3000 m² of studio space for plastic artists in resid...

A climate-sensitive office building   In March 2008 the Dutch Atelier Rijksbouwmeester, under governance by State Architect Mels Crouwels, commissioned a research project for a sustainable office building of 12.000 m². Aim was to research th...

Restauration and reconversion of old coal mine of Winterslag, Genk into cultural and tourist infrastructure   The original building is composed of a solid and rather dark base topped with naturally lit machine rooms. The first intervention con...

The renovation of this small terraced house, along one of the ‘Reien’ in the historical heart of Bruges, consists of reinterpreting the typical cramped back buildings as a spacious and generously lit winter garden. The double-height space, entirely...

Cultural Convention Centre   The client’s brief asked for a mix of congress facilities and cultural amenities on the site of an existing brewery.   The original structure is an undecipherable conglomerate of smaller buildings. The LAM...

Masterplan   Genk is one of the only cities in Flanders that doesn’t have a historical city center. Our proposal doesn’t start from the premise that Genk is in need of such a core, as is generally assumed by current policy.   The urbani...

Coming from the airport, the entrance road to Tirana is dominated by haphazard building construction. The filling station, situated on this road, reaffirms itself in this ever-changing context. As a composition of parts of very different scales, it g...

Urban Block   The project area presents itself as a potentially coherent block situated between Duresit Boulevard and Kavajes Boulevard. The building proposal emphasizes this quality of coherence, combining a strong building image with a serie...

The tower is part of the ambitious new master plan for the city, which converges around ten towers. The main program of the tower consists of office and housing program. Shopping and restaurant facilities are located in the base and at the top of the...

Belgian zoning regulations stipulate that a structure up to 21m², built within a radius of 30 metres of a legally approved structure, can be built without an architect or building permit. This regulation – covering porches, carports and garden houses...

Elderly Home   The addition of 54 elderly flats coincides with a transformation of the main part of the existing elderly home into offices. One of the arms of the home is programmatically dismembered and attached to a 3-armed building, integra...

Masterplan   The former military site is nowadays a large stretch of asphalt (3.5 ha in total) providing ample –and free- parking space. The strategic position of the site allows one to go from the ring road to the very center of the city in o...

TILE was conceived for the Leien boulevard footpath (48.000 m², in the centre of Antwerp). Reconsidering the concept of urban decoration, we distilled a poignant trident shape, a variation on a Moorish pattern, which specific contours allow f...

Office Building   The planned student facilities building functions as the tip of the iceberg of a disparate university campus. The campus, located within an urban block, has grown over the years by annexing whatever kind of structure came to ...

Museum Reconversion   The Groeningemuseum is not so much a building as it is a collection of linked objects within a garden set-up. The phased refurbishment of the 1930s Groeningemuseum is not merely focused on the creation of a new interior...

House Remastering   The Flemish village of Outgaarden is synonymous with a wide spread development of rural infrastructures. The traditional farms are gradually and irreversibly appropriated by wealthy newcomers, rendering the agricultural fac...