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GRAND POSTE, Liège – Belgium
La Grand Poste is a building that the people of Liège know well but, after years of abandonment, BPI and Noshaq asked the ALTIPLAN ° architects office to renovate the old building into a co-working center, a brasserie, a food market and to...
QUATUOR, Brussels – Belgium
From the monobloc of the Flemish administration, Jaspers-Eyers Architects, on behalf of the developer Befimmo, designed 4 small towers linked together by a base which encloses a green space open to all. Offices, shops, a Silversquare, a...
OXY, Brussels – Belgium
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...
BOTASOLAR, Brussels – Belgium
Stéphane Dykman buys a building at the corner of rue Neuve and place Rogier in Brussels. Quickly, he told himself that something was missing from his building. He then decides to seek with the help of many architects the solution to give...
CAMPUS CERIA, Brussels – Belgium
The CERIA campus is one of the most important campuses in the Brussels-Capital Region. The various schools located on the site are generally linked to the food industry but there is also a scientific research center in microbiology. Two new...
MULTI, Brussels – Belgium
The old Philips tower which is located in the center of Brussels was bought by Whitewood and Immobel for a complete renovation. CONIX RDBM Architects proposed a highly circular project with the preservation of the structure, with the reuse...
MIPIM AWARDS
For 200 years, the headquarters of Société Générale de Banque, now BNP Paribas Fortis, have been located at 3 Montagne du Parc in Brussels. In the early 2010s, the question of renovating the historic building arose. In collaboration with the first Bouwmeester in Brussels, an international architectural competition was launched to imagine a new head office in place of the modernist building. This choice has been commented on at length and still divides the architects.
The new headquarters has just been inaugurated, in March 2022. Its 300 columns impress and raise questions. Caviar gives the floor to the various protagonists of this project to understand its challenges and strengths.
Portraits of architects
MMBB : Portrait of Marta Moreira and Milton Braga
The firm MMBB in São Paulo is run by Marta Moreira and Milton Braga. They describe their architecture as ‘very Brazilian’ in the sense that it is highly attuned to the condition of a developing country. They define their aim as ‘a building...
PAULO MENDES DA ROCHA: Portrait of Paulo Mendes Da Rocha
Born into a family of Italian immigrants, Paulo Mendes Da Rocha studied architecture at Mackenzie University in São Paulo (Brazil). His desire to become an architect came from his father, who was an engineer. He does not like the word...
LEDROIT PIERRET POLET ARCHITECTES: Portrait of Anne Ledroit and Vincent Pierret
The Brussels-based firm Ledroit Pierret Polet (LPP) Architectes is one of the ten craft architecture firms that caviar.archi has decided to portray in film. Anne Ledroit and Vincent Pierret tell us all about their interest in architecture...
MANGER NIELSEN ARCHITECTS: Portrait of Johan Nielsen
The Brussels-based firm MangerNielsenArchitects (MNA) is one of the ten craft architecture firms that caviar.archi has decided to portray in film. Johan Nielsen tells us all about his interest in architecture in front of Mister Emma’s...
ATELIER DE VISSCHER & VINCENTELLI: Portrait of Antoine Vincentelli
The Brussels-based firm Atelier De Visscher & Vincentelli (ADVV) is one of the ten craft architecture firms that caviar.archi has decided to portray in film. Antoine Vincentelli tells us all about his interest in architecture in front...
noAarchitecten : Portrait of An Fonteyne
An Fonteyne is a partner at the Brussels architectural firm NoAarchitecten. They have just won two major projects in the Belgian capital; one for housing on the Tour and Taxis site (with awg architecten and Sergison Bates architects) and...