Belgium

Belgium:

Pentagonal house built around an oak tree trunk

Architects Atelier Vens Vanbelle used an oak tree trunk as a structural support for a house in Ghent.

Photography is by Tim Van de Velde. In a "Gordon Matta-Clark-like intervention", an oak tree trunk serves as a structural support for a house with a pentagonal plan in Ghent…

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Belgian holiday house by GAFPA takes its cues from Japanese architecture

Architecture studio GAFPA used low-cost materials to build this Japanese-inspired weekend retreat in northern Belgium, which features a slender spiral staircase.

GAFPA – which also recently slotted a wooden house into an old industrial building – was asked by a Ghent-based couple to design a weekend home for them in Wachtebeke, an East Flanders…

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A Labyrinth of Boolean Voids in Genk

The form of the labyrinth is explored as a spatial experience in a unique composition of wall and void.

© Filip Dujardin Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, an artistic collaboration between architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh, have created a labyrinthine intervention at the heart of the c-mine arts centre in…

#Installations

Begins Construction on the Largest Passive Office Building in Brussels

The building is expected to transform the area into “a new high-quality green urban district with mixed functions”

Courtesy of Neutelings Riedijk Architects Neutelings Riedijk Architects has begun construction on the Herman Teirlinck Building, which, when complete, will be the largest passive office building in Belgium, serving as a…

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