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dmvA designed a mobile living and working unit. It has all the practical comforts of a caravan, the difference is that it looks like a sculpture.
Closed the blob is like a huge pebble, or even an egg. With its nose opened it has more of a funny looking space-ship.
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| SWIMMING POOL |
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This swimming pool is located in Antwerp and opened his doors in 1933. Today it has been completely renovated. The building houses the renovated pool, bathing houses, a hammam, a gymnasium and a restaurant.
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| A CONTEMPORARY BUNGALOW |
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When renovating this house, the architect decided not to demolish the original house, constructed in the seventies. He reconstructed it to a home of today.. "I couldn't built a better new building, therefore I focussed on eliminating what wasn't good and adding what we needed. The result is an open plan, flat roof, contemporary home, with a plain interior, based on funky colours.
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| ANTWERP LAW COURT |
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The new Law Courts of Antwerp, signed Richard Rogers. Antwerp has a new landmark. A striking roof construction of shining waves has changed the city’s skyline. The new courthouse, designed by Richard Rogers in conjunction with Belgian architects VK Studio has dramatically changed the view from the inner city towards the outskirts. Ivan Harbour, the project architect for Rogers designed the new building as a catalyst of a larger urban development project for New South.
+ interview with Richard Rogers and Ivan Harbour and interview with Paul Corbeel
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| APARTMENT DUINBERGEN |
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This apartment is divided in two, a private part with the bed and bathrooms and a more public part, with the living room and kitchen. These two zones are separated by a plate-glass door, in which you can see your reflection and the place you are leaving. The white marble represents the changing colour of the sea. It almost goes through the entire apartment, in the guestroom it evolves in a carpet, designed by the architects.
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| APARTMENT FH |
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This apartment is situated in the old city of Ghent, in an old mansion. When the owner wanted to rent the apartment, the proprietor was busy renovating. The owner was fortunate enough to decide with him what the space would look like. For instance, he detest doors, so there are none in the apartment. Very little has been done about architecture here, the decoration is based on the positioning of some very fine furniture.
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| APARTMENT VANDENHENDE |
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A small apartment on the fifth floor has been turned into a multifunctional space with the character of a city loft. With, as an extra, a stunning view over Brussels.
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| BOULDER BUILDING |
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A company who produces textiles for curtains needed additional offices and showrooms. A Belgian based architecture office designed the new rooms and wrapped the old building and the new addition in metal boulder baskets to accentuate the unity between new and old. The rough skin of the building contrasts with the soft and subtle products the company sells.
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| CITY ARCHIVE |
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When the Saint Felix warehouse in Antwerp became empty, after one whole century of faithful service, it was not completely sure what was going to happen with the building. The warehouse existed of low ceilings, counted about 1500 columns and was protected as a historical monument. 30 years later, a new function for the building was found: the warehouse has again become a storage space. This time, not for tobacco, but for the archives of the city.
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| CITY HALL |
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The offices of this city hall are partly situated in former private houses. Out of respect for the original character of the houses, the architects tried to preserve their original structure. An artist designed several wallpapers, especially for this project.
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| ECONOMY BUILDING |
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This is the new economy building of the University of Ghent. At some moments, a sunken square on the basement floor is filled with hundreds of students between lectures and at other times is a deserted place with unexpected distant views. From here, a sequence of open inclines, staircases and corridors with the air of a landscape climb up along the facades and around the central lecture theatre.
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| FLOREAC |
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This building is an office and sales point for an international market garden. The architecture is a monolithic glasshouse, perfectly embedded in its surroundings.
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| HOUSE BORGHS - VAN AMMEL |
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This family house is designed by young Belgian architects. The owner of the property asked them to built a home where they could have some privacy. They designed a house which is almost completely closed at the street side and entirely executed in glass at the back side.
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| HOUSE UYTTENHOVE |
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This villa is build on a second plan in the garden of an existing 1920th villa. It expresses its position as a big garden pavilion. The plan is an attempt to a 'raumplan'. All the rooms have an explicit relation to the surrounding garden. From the outside the villa flirts with its art deco neighbours.
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| HOUSE W |
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Flowing spaces and an intense relation with nature. After more than 35 years, the villa is still up to date. The inhabitants are fascinated by art, literature and timeless design. It is no surprise that they chose a poet-architect. With a striking preference for slope corners. To give and to take.
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| HOUSE WEVELGEM |
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The house stretches itself as much as possible in the length of the plot, in order to maximize the relation with its garden. The volume of the garage, at the side of the house, assures privacy in the back of the garden.
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| JONKERSHOVE |
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A Dutch architecture office redesigned the centre of the Belgian village: ‘Jonkershove’. They also designed e new meeting centre.
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| LEON STYNEN |
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In 1933 the Modernist architect Leon Stynen built his own home in Antwerp on the previous Expo site. The Council of Antwerp had the idea to create a district like the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart, where only modernist homes could be built. Alas, this dream was never realised, but Stynen did design nine houses in his peculiar style. His own home has recently been renovated.
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| LOFT DMVA |
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dmvA stands for: ‘by means of Architecture’ (door middel van Architectuur). It is a young architects-duo, which aims to make extreme architecture. By this they mean architecture without compromises. This loft in Brussels is a good example. The young couple that lives in it wanted an open space but a separate bed and bathroom. The architects came up with the solution of movable boxes made out of the canvasses used for trucks and trailers
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| MEER |
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Belgian dmvA architects built an apartment block in a rural setting, near the Dutch border. The typology of this new architecture results from the typical triangular form of the neighbouring glasshouses.
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| OFFICE DE SMET VERMEULEN |
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This is the new office of a Belgian architecture office, in Ghent. The building is designed in a way that it can easily be transformed in a town house.
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| OUTGAARDEN |
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Architects 51N4E were asked to renovate this house. They proposed to rearrange the desired programs, so that each programmatic shift would engender new relationships. The pool, by the client initially imagined in the backyard, is placed in the middle of the courtyard. The kitchen is moved to the periphery of the farm, in order to optimize deliveries and access to storage spaces. Everything in the design underscores the contrast between the kitchen and the storage space. In between kitchen and storage an exclusive Carrara Bianca sliding wall is inserted.
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| TEN BOS |
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This old farmhouse has been transformed in a contemporary home for the owners and their three sons. The ground floor houses a library and work-zone, kitchen, living room and bedroom for the parents. On the first floor, the children have their bedroom.
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| THE HOUSE AROUND THE STAIRWAYS |
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This cabinet worker’s studio from 1931 has been restored into a cosy-loft-like residence with a lot of respect for the past. The owners live and work in the same space. A central large stairway with vistas from the different rooms and floors is the core of the house.
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| TRIPLEX APARTMENT |
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This apartment is situated in an old office building. The owner, who is an architect, added an extra floor and a terrace. The first floor consists of a sitting room, the bedroom and the adjoining bathroom. The second floor is an open kitchen with a mezzanine to the office, next to the terrace.
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| UNIMOG |
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A Belgian architect couple invested in a Unimog, on which they built a mobile home. With their home-machine they travel six months a year around Europe. When they are in Antwerp, their base-camp, they live in a garage. The Unimog then becomes their luxurious bathroom. In the rest of the garage they constructed a temporary cabane with recycled materials.
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| WARANDE |
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This new part of culture centre ‘De Warande’ contains teaching rooms, an art lending service, a stay for artists, workshop spaces, offices, … All these functions are housed in a chain of differentiated volumes. The volumes are linked by a circulation pattern that allows a maximum use of the spaces.
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