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THE COSMOPOLITAN, Brussels – Belgium
The Cosmopolitan is set to be the newest landmark in central Brussels, a pure white tower into the sky, designed by BOGDAN & VAN BROECK. From the upper floors, it offers stunning views across the whole city. White isn’t the only...
GRANARY ISLAND, Gdańsk – Poland
The project involves maintaining the historical remains of granaries, enriching them with modern, functional housing with public space. During the first phase of the project building of the footbridge over the Motława River, reconstruction...
SESC 24 de Maio – São Paulo, Brazil
In the very heart of São Paulo, the SESC 24 di Maio is used for several purposes: sport, culture and leisure. It is organised vertically, achieving spatial continuity by means of a ramp and openings. People who go to the theatre in the...
CANAL WHARF, Brussels – Belgium
EN / Design of the Canal Wharf project has been entrusted to three famous Belgian architects: Stéphane Beel, 51N4E and architectesassoc., who coordinated the coherence of the ensemble.Each architect has worked from common set of...
CASA MASETTI, São Paulo – Brazil
The Casa Masetti is a house designed by Paulo Mendes Da Rocha in the early 1970s. The architecture was inspired by the cliff on which it is built. The house consists of two spaces: the open, airy ground floor and the living space. Made of...
BRUSSELS CIRCUS SCHOOL, Tour & Taxis, Brussels – Belgium
EN / The installation of the Ecole du cirque de Bruxelles on the Tour et Taxis site was a political decision. The school is nomadic; after being set up in the Gare Maritime while waiting for this building to be renovated, it was swiftly...
Portraits of architects
TOWN PLANNING DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE: Portrait of Boguslaw Witkowski
Boguslaw Witkowski works for the Department of Town Planning, Design & Architecture in Belgium. He comes from Poland where architecture was regulated by extremely strict standards but he has discovered that the same is true here! He...
LUC SCHUITEN: Portrait of Luc Schuiten
Luc Schuiten is an architect. He often adds, a bit provocatively, that he is a ‘utopian’. He did not enjoy the traditional school subjects, and went to art school where he had opportunities to imagine, to work, to do something. Luc Schuiten...
SUEDE 36: Portrait of Christophe Mercier
Christophe Mercier likes to work for public projects because he has the impression that this gets him involved in politics in the noble sense of the term: managing the city, being able to influence the decisions that are taken there,...
PIERRE LALLEMAND & PARTNERS: Portrait of Pierre Lallemand
Pierre Lallemand is a founding partner at Art & Build Architects. Today, he works alone to find consistency in his work as a painter, model maker and inventor. He defines the architecture as the materialization of a thought, a...
architectesassoc. : Portrait of Sabine Leribaux
Her interest in architecture goes back to her early childhood. She first really understood this passion when she passed by a building site as a teenager. She has always been interested in the “doing” which she has never wanted to move away...
LABEL ARCHITECTURE: Portrait of Thibaut Rome and Christophe Pham
The Brussels-based firm Label Architecture is one of the ten craft architecture firms that caviar.archi has decided to portray in film. Thibaut Rome and Christophe Pham tell you all about their interest in architecture in front of Mister...
