2.1.1. Apartments Buildings
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OXY: Hotel & residential by Nicolas Lejeune (ADE)
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The OXY project represents a major transformation of Brussels’ city center, involving the complete renovation of the Anspach Tower, an emblematic building located near the city’s main urban axes. This intervention is part of a broader ambition to revitalize the architectural and functional fabric of the district, by reimagining an existing building and giving it a…
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ROUT LËNS, Esch-sur-Alzette – Luxembourg
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Le projet Rout Lëns s’inscrit dans la reconversion exemplaire d’un ancien site sidérurgique d’ArcelorMittal, exploité entre la fin du XIXᵉ siècle et 1977, au sud-ouest d’Esch-sur-Alzette. Longtemps laissé à l’abandon, ce territoire industriel chargé d’histoire devient aujourd’hui un laboratoire de transition écologique et urbaine, porté par le développeur IKO Real Estate en collaboration avec les autorités publiques luxembourgeoises. Le projet conserve…
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FINSTRAAT, Brussels – Belgium
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Arian Schelstraete is an architect. He bought a former brewery warehouse on rue Fin in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean to build his home. He divided the building into 3 flats and a space on the ground floor available for quarters, for associations looking for extra space. To bring light into the heart of each flat, the architect designed…
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GRANDE HALLE, Brussels – Belgium
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Located in the heart of the Heyvaert district of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, well known for the car trade to Africa, this flagship project of the « Petite Senne » sustainable neighbourhood contract is built on the site of a former industrial hall built in 1910 on the Quai de l’Industrie. The site, which extends into the interior of the…
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CIDADE MATARAZZO, São Paulo – Brasil
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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…
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BRUNFAUT TOWER, Brussels – Belgium
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The Brunfaut Tower was built in 1965 by Julien Roggen. Its frame is made of metal. This is unique in Brussels. However, it had serious deficiencies in terms of safety, living comfort and energy performance. The offices of A229 and Dethier Architecture won the competition launched by Logement Molenbeekois to thoroughly renovate the tower. In…
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JOLLY, Brussels – Belgium
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Winner of the be.exemplary award in 2019, the Jolly project was born during the Reine-Progrès sustainable neighbourhood contract. The objective was to transform a hollow tooth in Schaerbeek into 9 housing units. The building is part of the sustainability by the use of materials (here, CLT) but also in the accompaniment of the tenants by…
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TWIN FALLS, Brussels – Belgium
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The Twin House will become the Twin Falls under the leadership of the B2Ai architects office. On behalf of Eaglestone, the Brussels architectural office imagined a major transformation of an old office complex on the edge of Boulevard de la Woluwe to give it a contemporary function responding to the housing shortage in the Brussels-Capital…
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FONTAINAS, Brussels – Belgium
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The Fontainas project consists in the reconfiguration of a wasteland, left over after the demolition of Philips factory in the 1980’s. With 10.000 m2 of greenery, it is the only large-scale park in the disadvantaged urban center of Brussels. In order to create an extended park, the project proposes to reverse the logic of the…
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OXY, Brussels – Belgium
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The former Anspach center on Place de Brouckère in Brussels will be transformed into a multifunctional sustainable building. The real estate developers, Whitewood and Immobel, choose Snøhetta in collaboration with belgian company Binst Architects to redesign the tower. These two companies joined the executive team, the architects who monitor the bidding documents and the construction…