The architect Stefano Boeri designs Palazzo Verde in Belgium, a little gem in Antwerp’s Nieuw Zuid district. He and his partners at Stefano Boeri Architetti (Francesca Cesa Bianchi e Marco Giorgio), officially presented the brand-new building realized together with construction partner Triple Living.
“I believe that our cities must play a leading role in the battle against the dramatic consequences of climate change. We must urgently make them greener if we wish to succeed in turning the tide”, says the architect Stefano Boeri with great commitment when describing his vision of the future.
The thoughtful introduction of a covered outdoor space in this design created openness to the garden and added value for all volumes on the plot. The triangular terrace forms the core of a new living and outdoor experience, of which even the bicycle shed/cider workshop is now an integral part.
The outdoor space was constructed in reference to the archetypal bicycle sheds in the surrounding rural landscape: concrete stone, Oregon, rafters and here and there an old glass roof tile for filtered light.
The offices, showrooms and production halls of the Van Hoecke company are enlarged by means of two extensions in the multipurpose building on the one hand and in the production hall and the office building on the other.
The new multipurpose building is adjacent to the production hall and consists of two storeys. It is planned at the rear of the site. Landscape architects provide an environmental layout on this side of the plot.
Just outside the city center of Mechelen there is a modernist house from the 1950’s designed by Lucien Engels. The renovation of this beautiful house with city garden was done by dmvA. The modernist design language is a great quality of the building and was of course embraced during the renovation process. The goal of the renovation was to respect the existing design and even strengthen it with a few adaptations.
The ‘B’ in the name of this house stands for Basile, architect and co-founder of Graux & Baeyens architects (GBA). He and his wife were charmed by a 1965 chalet-style house in Destelbergen (Ghent, Belgium). And although it was too small for their family, Basile – how could it be otherwise – immediately saw opportunities to make it their home.
The project in Belle-ile (Liège) is an extension of an existing shopping center. This shopping center is located between 2 waterways, the river Ourthe and the ‘Canal de l’Ourthe’, which flow into the Meuse a little further. It is a former industrial site that has grown into an urban green space a stone’s throw from the center. The place is popular for shopping, but is also located on the famous RAVeL that runs along the Ourthe. In that regard, it is also an important destination for leisure activities such as cycling, hiking and simply enjoying nature. The Canal de l’Ourthe is now a Natura 2000 site, with beavers resurfacing.
The actual shopping center is a typical peripheral shopping center from the 1990s. It consists of a late post-modern, introverted volume that stands above an enormous parking lot. The footprint of the existing building is approximately 35,000 m² and can be seen as 3 different, unmixed layers: 35,000 m2 of parking on the ground floor, 35,000 m2 of shopping center on level +1 and finally 35,000 m2 of unused roof.
The new reception areas integrate harmoniously into the existing garden like a tranquil architectural landscape. The intervention gives a powerful and innovative impulse to a visit to the botanical garden in Meise.
The strength of the new reception structure lies in the contrast between the horizontal architecture and the verticality of the surrounding trees and the imposing Herbarium building. By designing the building in a canopy structure, indoor and outdoor spaces flow seamlessly into one another. The building is present, but subordinate to the existing landscape. At the same time, new inviting squares are organised at both entrances, bringing the public domain into the garden.
This project is located alongside the West Ring Road of Brussels-Capital. It has a prime location due to its proximity to the Ring, thus illustrating the overall mobility policy of the Brussels-Capital Region. The new car park offers 1200 spaces for private cars, 150 spaces for motorcycles or shared cars and 270 bicycle spaces. It is a perfect fit with the overall vision of reducing congestion in the capital while creating a multimodal node, at the same time as increasing densification in these districts of Anderlecht by offering more sustainable mobility.
Two buildings with amenities for the neighbourhood play the central part in the development of the Albertpool in Vorst (Brussels).
These two buildings are the gateway to this district. The new Albertpool is an excellent opportunity to put this vibrant part of the city on the map in exemplary fashion.
The industrial zone of Menen a Belgian city located close to the French border is surrounded by the characteristic landscape of the country’s southern areas, a markedly horizontal scenery of greens and ochers where farming and livestock exploitations coexist with small factories. It is into this context that the new VDAB facility inserts itself like just another component of the landscape. Its new Logistics and Training Center is a building surrounded by three hectares of strips for driving a wide range of heavy vehicles.
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