Projects
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BELLE-VUE, Brussels – Belgium
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Following its acquisition of the old Belle-Vue breweries site in Molenbeek (Brussels, Belgium), Nelson Canal has, with the help of the A2M architectural office, been working on renovating the buildings and giving them a new direction: a youth hotel, passive housing, and the 2.0 Museum have appeared. Project name : Belle-Vue Address : 33-41 quai…
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LES TREFLES, Brussels – Belgium
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The ask was to accommodate some 750 students, from kindergarten to primary school, with an adjoining sports centre as well. Patrick Vonck started out with a negative reaction to the memories of my youth, being the classical rectangular building with the central corridor, enclosed, a bit claustrophobic. Project name: Les Trèfles Address: 8 rue Daniel…
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DOCKS BRUXSEL, Brussels – Belgium
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Docks Bruxsel is a hub, a place for exchange and a place to live, underpinned by the economic support of commerce. The aim of this new commercial pole in the north of Brussels is to bring life to an old neighbourhood that was once marked by the presence of the warehouses and activities of the…
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GREENBIZZ, Brussels – Belgium
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Greenbizz is the economic component of the Tivoli Green City project being developed by citydev.brussels. Its great originality is in having been designed, for the first time in Brussels, with an incubation section above the workshops section. architectesassoc. has designed an innovative building with a low energy production section and a passive energy incubation section.…
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TIVOLI GREEN CITY, Brussels – Belgium
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Tivoli Sustainable Neighbourhood is the largest project that citydev.brussels has ever undertaken. This eco-neighbourhood will include economic activity (Greenbizz), housing, two crèches, and 1,000 m² of shops. It is located on a complex site, as it’s squeezed in between a residential area and an industrial one. in association with citydev.brussels Project name : Tivoli Green…
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NEWTON SME PARK, Brussels – Belgium
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citydev.brussels did not use to have any no built units intended for small SMEs in Brussels. But with the Brussels Newton SME Park, citydev.brussels has now created a park with around fifteen 250 sqm units. The building was designed by the architects DDS & Partners Architects and the Bureau d’Architecture Emmanuel Bouffioux. In March 2015…
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BRUSSELS BUILDS GREENER : Future Proof Hospitals
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How should you design a hospital when you know that it is going to take between five and ten years? How will we be operating in tomorrow’s world? The construction of a hospital of the future is a real challenge, in making sure that it can evolve. an initiative of Brussels Invest & Export with…
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ELIA GREEN BUILDING « NEW SCHAERBEEK », Brussels – Belgium
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Elia organised a closed competition for their site resulting in the selection of the Architectes Associés Firm at the beginning of 2010. The difficulties facing the project were essentially due to the urban location as the site is surrounded by an incinerator, the Van Praet bridge, which is a permanent traffic jam, an extremely noisy…
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HQE BRUYN, Brussels – Belgium
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In 2008 the CPAS (Public Social Welfare Centre) launched a competition for 3 sites around Neder-over-Heembeek: Bruyn Est, Bruyn Ouest and Bruyn Nord. B612 Associates won the competition for Bruyn Est. The ground really was on the border between the edge of the urban development and the countryside. The key to the whole project lay…
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GATTI DE GAMOND, Brussels – Belgium
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This capsule highlights the difficulty of transforming an office building into housing, and, above all, the many procedures that an architect has to go through in order to see his project actually come to fruition. A process that is sometimes very long and fraught with pitfalls, and which does not always lead to a result that…