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  • PIERRE LALLEMAND & PARTNERS: Portrait of Pierre Lallemand

    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 reflection, a will and an intention. Pierre LallemandPierre Lallemand & Parners pierrelallemand.euinfo@plpa.eu Technical sheet of this…

  • architectesassoc. : Portrait of Sabine Leribaux

    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 from. The aim of creating the « architectesassoc. » organisation was for her to stay…

  • LABEL ARCHITECTURE: Portrait of Thibaut Rome and Christophe Pham

    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 Emma’s camera. They describe their day-to-day work and practices. Quality architecture, architecture in good taste, but what…

  • ADN ARCHITECTURES: Portrait of David Henquinet and Nicolas Iacobellis

    ADN ARCHITECTURES: Portrait of David Henquinet and Nicolas Iacobellis

    The Brussels-based firm and_architecture is one of the ten craft architecture firms that caviar.archi has decided to portray in film. David Henquinet and Nicolas Iacobellis tell you all about their interest in architecture in front of Mister Emma’s camera. They describe their day-to-day work and practices. Quality architecture, architecture in good taste, but what does…

  • HUB.BRUSSELS : Brussels Retrofit Living Lab / WVDM

    HUB.BRUSSELS : Brussels Retrofit Living Lab / WVDM

    The “Vrije Universeit Brussel” (VUB) is aiming for the sustainable management of its estate [VUB 2011].  In this respect the renovation of student residences in the heart of the Ixelles university campus, designed by the architect Willy Van Der Meeren between 1971 and 1973, presents a particular challenge.  These dwellings have strong cultural and historic…

  • HUB.BRUSSELS : Brussels Retrofit Living Lab / Modul’air

    HUB.BRUSSELS : Brussels Retrofit Living Lab / Modul’air

    Apartment buildings constructed in the second half of the 20th century that have not been or have hardly been renovated present today numerous deficiencies in terms of their energy efficiency and the comfort and health of their occupants.  Poor thermal insulation and airtightness of the building shell, the presence of thermal bridges, the absence of…

  • HUB.BRUSSELS: Brussels Retrofit Living Lab / RenoLabC – Bonnevie

    The Reno-Lab-C project faces two current challenges at the heart of the Brussels housing market: 1) develop an approach to collection renovations, 2) and with private owners and tenants who are not currently able to renovate for reasons such as access to finance, administrative and practical complications, difficulties in finding a contractor, tendering, monitoring etc.…

  • BMA: Portrait of Kristiaan Borret, Bouwmeester of Brussels

    BMA: Portrait of Kristiaan Borret, Bouwmeester of Brussels

    Following Olivier Bastin, the second Bouwmeester (Master Architect) of Brussels is Kristiaan Borret, previously the Bouwmeester of Antwerp. We compile a profile of his career and discuss the three pillars that make up the job of a Bouwmeester. His direct and sometimes brutal style has not only won him friends. Some firms, often called “the…

  • UP-site, Brussels – Belgium

    UP-site, Brussels – Belgium

    Brussels is rather hostile to the high-rise city. So when Henri Simons, then Alderman for City Planning in the City of Brussels, put forward the idea of constructing the highest residential tower in the kingdom (140 metres high for 251 apartments spread over 41 floors) on the site of the old Galeries Anspach warehouses, opposite…

  • DDS+ : Portrait of Dominique Delbrouck

    DDS+ : Portrait of Dominique Delbrouck

    Dominique Delbrouck studied at La Cambre (Brussels) before joining movements seeking to preserve the quality of the city. She then signed up to the architectural grammar process of the Atelier d’Art Urbain, before co-founding the DDS & Partners firm, now DDS+. A “plus” that she intends to put to good use in each of the…