2.2. Work places

  • MONTECO, Brussels – Belgium

    MONTECO, Brussels – Belgium

    Located on a small plot of land on the corner of rue Montoyer and rue de l’Industrie, this new office building replaces a building of poor quality that has become obsolete.Unlike other typical buildings in the area, whose floors are progressively set back, ARCHI2000 opted for 2 floors set back in a single block in…

  • BRASSERIES ATLAS, Brussels – Belgium

    BRASSERIES ATLAS, Brussels – Belgium

    In September 2023, the artists and craftsmen of the Brasseries Atlas organized an exhibition of their work and the history of the building. Émile Barret contacted ARCHI URBAIN to obtain the archives of Mister Emma’s interviews with Guido Vanderhulst in 2006 and Philippe De Bloos and Christophe Lambert in 2012. It was time to take…

  • THE LOUISE, Brussels – Belgium

    THE LOUISE, Brussels – Belgium

    The Louise Tower, known as Generali on Avenue Louise in Brussels, is undergoing a major renovation and is now called The Louise. Brussels-based A2RC has been commissioned to bring the Polak brothers’ 1963 building into the 21st century. The tower retains its characteristic diamond shape, tinted windows and original colors. On the other hand, other…

  • WOODEN, Leudelange – Luxembourg

    WOODEN, Leudelange – Luxembourg

    In 2018, BPI Real Estate and IKO Real Estate decided to construct a wooden building on a scale never before built in Luxembourg. To build the Baloise headquarters, they called on the architectural firm ArtBuild Architects. The architects chose to showcase the wood in order to emphasise the feel-good factor of the material. They also…

  • MARNIX, Brussels – Belgium

    MARNIX, Brussels – Belgium

    The MARNIX building in the heart of Brussels was erected in 1964 by the American firm SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill). It was extended using the same architectural grammar in 1989 and has become an emblematic building for the European capital, but the task facing Brussels-based A2M today is much more important: to bring the…

  • CIDADE MATARAZZO, São Paulo – Brasil

    CIDADE MATARAZZO, São Paulo – Brasil

    Alexandre Allard is a French entrepreneur best known for the renovation of the Royal Monceau in Paris. Since 2011, he has been developing a real estate and cultural project in São Paulo, Brazil: the Cidade Matarazzo is a former hospital in the centre of São Paulo. After renovating the small chapel, Alexandre Allard called on…

  • HEKLA, Paris – France

    HEKLA, Paris – France

    The land where the HEKLA tower is located is triangular in shape and surrounded by numerous road connections. AG Real Estate proposed Jean Nouvel to the Paris La Défense developers as the architect for this flagship project, which aims to rebalance the skyline of La Défense, reconnect the various roads and activate this district of…

  • ODYSSÉE, Guyancourt – France

    ODYSSÉE, Guyancourt – France

    In the suburbs of Paris, ArtBuild proposed to its client Nexity, on behalf of Renault, an alternative to a traditional office building: it was the first time that the Belgian-French architectural firm had a client who asked them to make a building in timber construction. The agency has been convinced for many years that timber…

  • LEX66, Brussels – Belgium

    LEX66, Brussels – Belgium

    Rue de la Loi, at number 66, in Brussels, there is a group of buildings whose complex layout pierces the interior of the block. The architectural firm ArtBuild was commissioned to imagine a new complex, more harmonious, more transparent, more transpiring, more in phase with the development plan of the district imagined by Christian de…

  • AG CAMPUS, Brussels – Belgium

    AG CAMPUS, Brussels – Belgium

    AG Real Estate wanted to modernise the ground floor of their office building in the rue du Pont Neuf to accommodate an e-learning centre and a meeting centre. The project proposed by evr-architecten met their concern for sustainability, which goes far beyond a question of saving energy. evr-architecten imagined a project that brings light into…