Belgian Designers Breathe New Life into Historic Doctor’s Residence and Practice.Dries Otten and Axelle Vertommen have breathed new life into a modernist doctor's residence in Turnhout, Belgium. Part of the 'Turnhoutse School' tradition, this architectural gem now serves a family with three children while preserving...
Muller Van Severen Redefine the Boundaries of Art and Function with Architecturally Inspired Objects.Muller Van Severenâs solo exhibition 'Frames' features over 30 unique works that challenge the boundaries between sculpture and functional objects. Starting from a single plate, each piece is transformed through cutting and folding,...
Studio Kuhlmannâs Lucid Dreams Pays Homage to the Fleeting Refuge of a Midday Nap.Studio Kuhlmannâs debut solo exhibition pays homage to the fleeting refuge of a midday napâa momentary escape from the demands of reality into the realm of unconsciousness. Held at St Vincentâs gallery, the exhibition displays the...
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...