From Two Apartments to a Family Home: House Y&A in Mortsel by Memo Architectuur.Spacious enough to hold a growing family of four, House Y&A has generous living spaces and a very homely connection to the rear garden. Yet, many of its spaces seem like they could be pulled out of a magazine under its âsmall footprint...
Lighter than Light: A Country Villa by Grain Designoffice.If there's one thing that definesâand unitesâspaces by Grain Designoffice, it's an enduring sense of weightlessness. Walls the colour of sunlight. Furniture in amorphous shapes. Rooms that flow into each other like slow, meandering...
Deliberate and Daring: Mozart Townhouse in Antwerp by Poot Architectuur.Poot Architectuurâs rebirth of a rather grand, four-storey 19th century townhouse in the heart of Antwerp is laced with strong heritage bones that have been given a second life through a series of deliberate, and fairly daring,...
Mark Manders Takes Over a Post-Brutalist Masterpiece by Architect Juliaan Lampens.The Absence of Mark Manders unfolds in the Woning Van Wassenhoveâa post-Brutalist house for a bachelor designed by Juliaan Lampens in 1974. In jarring contrast to prevailing depictions of clean and mostly empty Brutalist interiors, the...
Graceful Contrasts: Sint Benedictus House in Mortsel by Poot Architectuur.Embracing a push-pull force along its facades, this long and narrow townhouse in Mortsel, Belgium, seems to be almost squashed by its two neighbours and bulging at the seams. Thereâs something quite Gaudi-esque about this floorplan of...
A Side of Ocean: Dunas in Belgium by Grain Designoffice.Dunas could have been excavated from the briny deep. All the evidence says so. Take the organically shaped benches in prefabricated stamped concrete, or the floor emblazoned with shell fragments. Or even the transparent sand-coloured...
Earth Meets the Sky in this Antwerp Penthouse by Bruno Spaas Architectuur.Despite perching 15 floors up high, there is solid ground in the newly inaugurated Antwerp penthouse belonging to Belgian architect Bruno Spaas. With the entire 350-square-meter floor surface made from chunks of local light brown natural...
Maniera Inaugurates its New Gallery Space at HĂ´tel Danckaert.Maniera unveils its new gallery space, HĂ´tel Danckaert, a preserved art deco building in Brussels, the best way they know howâwith an exhibition. For the inaugural show, fifteen new pieces by artists and architects enter into a dialogue...
Paint Mirrors Collection by Paulineplusluis.Paulineplusluis have released a collection of mirrors in collaboration with Belgian brand and manufacturer Deknutd Mirrors. The inspiration for the project came from the production process of the mirrors. âWe focused on the fluid aspect...